Bread Financial Holdings Inc (BFH) short interest & short volume · 7.4% of float short
Bread Financial Holdings Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
BFH short interest rose 5.2% to 3.4M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (7.4% of float, 6.4 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 75.3% of volume over the last 20 sessions, the 83rd percentile of its own 20-day averages since Oct 6, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 3.4M
- prior 3.2M
- % of float
- 7.4%
- float 46.1M
- Days to cover
- 6.4
- avg vol 532K
- Change vs prior report
- +5.2%
| Report date | Shares short | $ value short | Change | % float | Days to cover | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 | 3.4M | $345.1M | +5.2% | 7.4% | 6.4 | $101.31 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 3.2M | $316.5M | +16.1% | 7.0% | 4.8 | $97.75 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 2.8M | $300.2M | -9.8% | 6.0% | 5.6 | $107.65 |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 3.1M | $323.1M | +14.6% | 6.7% | 7.5 | $104.47 |
| Aug 14, 2026 | 2.7M | $306.0M | -2.2% | 5.8% | 7.0 | $113.40 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | 2.8M | $298.1M | -4.8% | 6.0% | 3.7 | $108.07 |
Days to cover is short interest divided by FINRA's average daily volume for the period: how many average days of trading it would take shorts to buy back.
% of float uses the current float for every report (no float was stored with older reports).
Source: FINRA equity short interest (twice monthly) · Settlement Oct 15, 2026
Daily short volume
Share of each day's volume sold short · FINRA Reg SHO
- Latest (Nov 11)
- 83.8%
- 167K of 200K
- 20-day average
- 75.3%
- prior 75.2%
- Percentile vs own history
- 83rd
- 233 periods since 2025
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Source: FINRA Reg SHO daily short sale volume · Latest Nov 11, 2026
Short squeeze score (model)
Price since settlement: -3.4%
Model, not a forecast: 40 pts short interest % of float (full at 30%), 25 pts days to cover (full at 10), 15 pts rise in short interest since the prior report (full at +50%), 20 pts price gain since the settlement date (full at +25%). Missing inputs score 0.
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Market-wide: most shorted stocks, biggest changes and unusual short volume · BFH overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-11 | 167,484 | 199,761 | 83.8% |
| 2026-11-10 | 223,396 | 262,728 | 85.0% |
| 2026-11-09 | 351,511 | 456,976 | 76.9% |
| 2026-11-06 | 118,577 | 152,423 | 77.8% |
| 2026-11-05 | 215,251 | 261,847 | 82.2% |
| 2026-11-04 | 442,465 | 488,494 | 90.6% |
| 2026-11-03 | 137,628 | 165,180 | 83.3% |
| 2026-11-02 | 152,630 | 220,672 | 69.2% |
| 2026-10-30 | 109,749 | 171,129 | 64.1% |
| 2026-10-29 | 156,007 | 222,884 | 70.0% |
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BFH is rated 3.81 of 5 among 524 rated Financials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 13, 2026). How the rating works
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BFH on Lician stock screens
BFH is rated Buy (3.81 of 5) and passes 1 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 13, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
BFH short interest FAQ
What is BFH's short interest?
Bread Financial Holdings Inc (BFH) had 3.4M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 7.4% of its 46.1M-share float.
How many days to cover does BFH have?
6.4 days: 3.4M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 532K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is BFH short interest rising or falling?
BFH short interest rose (+5.2%) from 3.2M to 3.4M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is BFH a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores BFH 28 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 9.9/40, days to cover 16/25, change in short interest vs prior report 1.6/15, price change since settlement date 0/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of BFH daily volume is sold short?
75.3% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 11, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 83rd percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was BFH's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 11, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Bread Financial Holdings Inc (BFH) was 167,484 shares, 83.8% of 199,761 total volume.
How many BFH short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Bread Financial Holdings Inc (BFH), from Oct 29, 2026 through Nov 11, 2026.
How did BFH short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Bread Financial Holdings Inc (BFH) moved from 85.0% on Nov 10, 2026 to 83.8% on Nov 11, 2026, down 1.2 percentage points.
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