Bumble Inc (BMBL) short interest & short volume · 17.0% of float short
Bumble Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
BMBL short interest fell 18.3% to 12.0M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (17.0% of float, 1.0 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 51.0% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 59.5% the 20 sessions before, the 27th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 12.0M
- prior 14.6M
- % of float
- 17.0%
- float 70.4M
- Days to cover
- 1.0
- avg vol 20.0M
- Change vs prior report
- -18.3%
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)
- 39.8%
- 285K of 715K
- 20-day average
- 51.0%
- prior 59.5%
- Percentile vs own history
- 27th
- 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: +0.8%
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 · BMBL overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 284,874 | 715,297 | 39.8% |
| 2026-10-30 | 854,342 | 1,622,354 | 52.7% |
| 2026-10-29 | 500,592 | 880,380 | 56.9% |
| 2026-10-28 | 237,555 | 558,809 | 42.5% |
| 2026-10-27 | 534,803 | 996,823 | 53.6% |
| 2026-10-26 | 731,892 | 1,402,462 | 52.2% |
| 2026-10-23 | 1,048,015 | 1,801,088 | 58.2% |
| 2026-10-22 | 1,259,901 | 2,037,863 | 61.8% |
| 2026-10-21 | 1,112,629 | 2,436,460 | 45.7% |
| 2026-10-20 | 439,322 | 1,346,555 | 32.6% |
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BMBL short interest FAQ
What is BMBL's short interest?
Bumble Inc (BMBL) had 12.0M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 17.0% of its 70.4M-share float.
How many days to cover does BMBL have?
1.0 days: 12.0M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 20.0M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is BMBL short interest rising or falling?
BMBL short interest fell (-18.3%) from 14.6M to 12.0M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is BMBL a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores BMBL 26 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 22.6/40, days to cover 2.5/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 0.6/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of BMBL daily volume is sold short?
51.0% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 27th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was BMBL's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Bumble Inc (BMBL) was 284,874 shares, 39.8% of 715,297 total volume.
How many BMBL short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Bumble Inc (BMBL), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did BMBL short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Bumble Inc (BMBL) moved from 52.7% on Oct 30, 2026 to 39.8% on Nov 2, 2026, down 12.9 percentage points.
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