Badger Meter Inc (BMI) short interest & short volume · 15.4% of float short
Badger Meter Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
BMI short interest fell 2.6% to 4.5M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (15.4% of float, 11.0 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 67.5% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 74.5% 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
- 4.5M
- prior 4.6M
- % of float
- 15.4%
- float 29.0M
- Days to cover
- 11.0
- avg vol 404K
- Change vs prior report
- -2.6%
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)
- 40.4%
- 186K of 461K
- 20-day average
- 67.5%
- prior 74.5%
- 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: +20.3%
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 · BMI overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 186,048 | 461,097 | 40.4% |
| 2026-10-30 | 90,710 | 139,856 | 64.9% |
| 2026-10-29 | 129,725 | 194,810 | 66.6% |
| 2026-10-28 | 218,010 | 294,633 | 74.0% |
| 2026-10-27 | 295,640 | 389,367 | 75.9% |
| 2026-10-26 | 193,517 | 303,316 | 63.8% |
| 2026-10-23 | 164,112 | 315,096 | 52.1% |
| 2026-10-22 | 390,920 | 575,780 | 67.9% |
| 2026-10-21 | 235,625 | 348,361 | 67.6% |
| 2026-10-20 | 87,325 | 179,847 | 48.6% |
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BMI short interest FAQ
What is BMI's short interest?
Badger Meter Inc (BMI) had 4.5M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 15.4% of its 29.0M-share float.
How many days to cover does BMI have?
11.0 days: 4.5M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 404K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is BMI short interest rising or falling?
BMI short interest fell (-2.6%) from 4.6M to 4.5M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is BMI a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores BMI 62 out of 100 (elevated) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 20.5/40, days to cover 25/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 16.2/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of BMI daily volume is sold short?
67.5% 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 BMI's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Badger Meter Inc (BMI) was 186,048 shares, 40.4% of 461,097 total volume.
How many BMI short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Badger Meter Inc (BMI), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did BMI short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Badger Meter Inc (BMI) moved from 64.9% on Oct 30, 2026 to 40.4% on Nov 2, 2026, down 24.5 percentage points.
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