Blue Bird Corp (BLBD) short interest & short volume · 13.5% of float short
Blue Bird Corp official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
BLBD short interest fell 5.6% to 4.2M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (13.5% of float, 10.8 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 67.4% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 61.3% the 20 sessions before, the 90th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 4.2M
- prior 4.5M
- % of float
- 13.5%
- float 31.4M
- Days to cover
- 10.8
- avg vol 394K
- Change vs prior report
- -5.6%
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)
- 84.1%
- 137K of 163K
- 20-day average
- 67.4%
- prior 61.3%
- Percentile vs own history
- 90th
- 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: +0.6%
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 · BLBD overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 137,390 | 163,340 | 84.1% |
| 2026-10-30 | 129,447 | 164,592 | 78.7% |
| 2026-10-29 | 100,742 | 155,916 | 64.6% |
| 2026-10-28 | 125,150 | 152,676 | 82.0% |
| 2026-10-27 | 192,097 | 229,448 | 83.7% |
| 2026-10-26 | 94,027 | 137,673 | 68.3% |
| 2026-10-23 | 115,130 | 241,032 | 47.8% |
| 2026-10-22 | 79,907 | 250,711 | 31.9% |
| 2026-10-21 | 149,462 | 218,502 | 68.4% |
| 2026-10-20 | 128,405 | 197,601 | 65.0% |
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BLBD short interest FAQ
What is BLBD's short interest?
Blue Bird Corp (BLBD) had 4.2M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 13.5% of its 31.4M-share float.
How many days to cover does BLBD have?
10.8 days: 4.2M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 394K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is BLBD short interest rising or falling?
BLBD short interest fell (-5.6%) from 4.5M to 4.2M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is BLBD a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores BLBD 44 out of 100 (elevated) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 18/40, days to cover 25/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 0.5/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of BLBD daily volume is sold short?
67.4% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 90th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was BLBD's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Blue Bird Corp (BLBD) was 137,390 shares, 84.1% of 163,340 total volume.
How many BLBD short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Blue Bird Corp (BLBD), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did BLBD short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Blue Bird Corp (BLBD) moved from 78.7% on Oct 30, 2026 to 84.1% on Nov 2, 2026, up 5.4 percentage points.
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