BankUnited Inc (BKU) short interest & short volume · 5.4% of float short
BankUnited Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
BKU short interest rose 5.5% to 3.9M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (5.4% of float, 4.1 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 48.9% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 50.4% the 20 sessions before, the 43rd percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 3.9M
- prior 3.7M
- % of float
- 5.4%
- float 72.0M
- Days to cover
- 4.1
- avg vol 936K
- Change vs prior report
- +5.5%
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)
- 58.9%
- 143K of 243K
- 20-day average
- 48.9%
- prior 50.4%
- Percentile vs own history
- 43rd
- 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: +3.0%
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 · BKU overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 143,120 | 243,065 | 58.9% |
| 2026-10-30 | 69,873 | 122,988 | 56.8% |
| 2026-10-29 | 149,727 | 349,346 | 42.9% |
| 2026-10-28 | 164,711 | 366,267 | 45.0% |
| 2026-10-27 | 93,852 | 213,509 | 44.0% |
| 2026-10-26 | 106,880 | 209,729 | 51.0% |
| 2026-10-23 | 133,134 | 335,786 | 39.6% |
| 2026-10-22 | 240,796 | 367,654 | 65.5% |
| 2026-10-21 | 410,050 | 636,718 | 64.4% |
| 2026-10-20 | 323,049 | 502,749 | 64.3% |
Financials peers with similar quant ratings
BKU is rated 1.40 of 5 among 516 rated Financials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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BKU short interest FAQ
What is BKU's short interest?
BankUnited Inc (BKU) had 3.9M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 5.4% of its 72.0M-share float.
How many days to cover does BKU have?
4.1 days: 3.9M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 936K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is BKU short interest rising or falling?
BKU short interest rose (+5.5%) from 3.7M to 3.9M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is BKU a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores BKU 22 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 7.2/40, days to cover 10.4/25, change in short interest vs prior report 1.7/15, price change since settlement date 2.4/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of BKU daily volume is sold short?
48.9% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 43rd percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was BKU's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for BankUnited Inc (BKU) was 143,120 shares, 58.9% of 243,065 total volume.
How many BKU short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for BankUnited Inc (BKU), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did BKU short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for BankUnited Inc (BKU) moved from 56.8% on Oct 30, 2026 to 58.9% on Nov 2, 2026, up 2.1 percentage points.
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