Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY) short interest & short volume · 2.5% of float short
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
BMY short interest rose 8.9% to 49.9M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (2.5% of float, 3.6 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 45.0% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 49.7% the 20 sessions before, the 32nd percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 49.9M
- prior 45.8M
- % of float
- 2.5%
- float 2.03B
- Days to cover
- 3.6
- avg vol 13.7M
- Change vs prior report
- +8.9%
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)
- 32.2%
- 1.4M of 4.3M
- 20-day average
- 45.0%
- prior 49.7%
- Percentile vs own history
- 32nd
- 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: +1.9%
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 · BMY overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 1,400,856 | 4,347,483 | 32.2% |
| 2026-10-30 | 1,925,195 | 3,955,566 | 48.7% |
| 2026-10-29 | 2,182,620 | 4,853,063 | 45.0% |
| 2026-10-28 | 1,375,909 | 2,433,663 | 56.5% |
| 2026-10-27 | 1,528,762 | 2,572,803 | 59.4% |
| 2026-10-26 | 1,111,698 | 2,151,384 | 51.7% |
| 2026-10-23 | 1,718,008 | 2,952,477 | 58.2% |
| 2026-10-22 | 1,720,884 | 3,352,792 | 51.3% |
| 2026-10-21 | 1,085,936 | 2,118,540 | 51.3% |
| 2026-10-20 | 2,717,067 | 4,561,866 | 59.6% |
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BMY is rated 3.31 of 5 among 532 rated Healthcare stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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BMY short interest FAQ
What is BMY's short interest?
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY) had 49.9M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 2.5% of its 2.03B-share float.
How many days to cover does BMY have?
3.6 days: 49.9M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 13.7M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is BMY short interest rising or falling?
BMY short interest rose (+8.9%) from 45.8M to 49.9M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is BMY a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores BMY 17 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 3.3/40, days to cover 9.1/25, change in short interest vs prior report 2.7/15, price change since settlement date 1.5/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of BMY daily volume is sold short?
45.0% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 32nd percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was BMY's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY) was 1,400,856 shares, 32.2% of 4,347,483 total volume.
How many BMY short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did BMY short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY) moved from 48.7% on Oct 30, 2026 to 32.2% on Nov 2, 2026, down 16.5 percentage points.
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