BHP Group Limited (BHP) short interest & short volume · 0.4% of float short
BHP Group Limited official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
BHP short interest fell 8.5% to 19.2M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (0.4% of float, 7.4 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 48.1% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 49.6% the 20 sessions before, the 18th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 19.2M
- prior 21.0M
- % of float
- 0.4%
- float 4.92B
- Days to cover
- 7.4
- avg vol 2.6M
- Change vs prior report
- -8.5%
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 2)
- 34.7%
- 354K of 1.0M
- 20-day average
- 48.1%
- prior 49.6%
- Percentile vs own history
- 18th
- 233 periods since 2025
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Source: FINRA Reg SHO daily short sale volume · Latest Nov 2, 2026
Short squeeze score (model)
Price since settlement: -5.8%
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 · BHP overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 353,780 | 1,019,632 | 34.7% |
| 2026-10-30 | 835,547 | 1,358,886 | 61.5% |
| 2026-10-29 | 668,375 | 1,638,445 | 40.8% |
| 2026-10-28 | 301,018 | 685,129 | 43.9% |
| 2026-10-27 | 655,819 | 1,524,250 | 43.0% |
| 2026-10-26 | 560,031 | 1,230,284 | 45.5% |
| 2026-10-23 | 266,954 | 947,364 | 28.2% |
| 2026-10-22 | 689,464 | 1,646,852 | 41.9% |
| 2026-10-21 | 734,814 | 1,606,758 | 45.7% |
| 2026-10-20 | 548,639 | 1,043,744 | 52.6% |
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BHP is rated 4.71 of 5 among 146 rated Materials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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BHP on Lician stock screens
BHP is rated Strong Buy (4.71 of 5) and passes 2 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
BHP short interest FAQ
What is BHP's short interest?
BHP Group Limited (BHP) had 19.2M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 0.4% of its 4.92B-share float.
How many days to cover does BHP have?
7.4 days: 19.2M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 2.6M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is BHP short interest rising or falling?
BHP short interest fell (-8.5%) from 21.0M to 19.2M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is BHP a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores BHP 19 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 0.5/40, days to cover 18.4/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, 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 BHP daily volume is sold short?
48.1% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 18th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was BHP's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for BHP Group Limited (BHP) was 353,780 shares, 34.7% of 1,019,632 total volume.
How many BHP short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for BHP Group Limited (BHP), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did BHP short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for BHP Group Limited (BHP) moved from 61.5% on Oct 30, 2026 to 34.7% on Nov 2, 2026, down 26.8 percentage points.
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