Bridgford Foods Corporation (BRID) short interest & short volume · 0.5% of float short
Bridgford Foods Corporation official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
BRID short interest rose 8.9% to 8K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (0.5% of float, 2.2 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 28.1% of volume over the last 20 sessions, the 39th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 16, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 8K
- prior 7K
- % of float
- 0.5%
- float 1.7M
- Days to cover
- 2.2
- avg vol 4K
- 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)
- 16.1%
- 789 of 5K
- 20-day average
- 28.1%
- prior 28.1%
- Percentile vs own history
- 39th
- 231 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: -8.3%
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 · BRID overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 789 | 4,908 | 16.1% |
| 2026-10-30 | 745 | 4,273 | 17.4% |
| 2026-10-29 | 637 | 1,247 | 51.1% |
| 2026-10-28 | 8 | 742 | 1.1% |
| 2026-10-27 | 56 | 541 | 10.3% |
| 2026-10-26 | 386 | 4,131 | 9.3% |
| 2026-10-23 | 2,110 | 5,792 | 36.4% |
| 2026-10-22 | 668 | 3,177 | 21.0% |
| 2026-10-21 | 916 | 2,908 | 31.5% |
| 2026-10-20 | 367 | 1,818 | 20.2% |
Consumer Staples peers with similar quant ratings
BRID among 117 rated Consumer Staples stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
- KO short interest4.98 · Strong Buy · stock
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- MNST short interest4.88 · Strong Buy · stock
- FRPT short interest4.84 · Strong Buy · stock
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BRID short interest FAQ
What is BRID's short interest?
Bridgford Foods Corporation (BRID) had 8K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 0.5% of its 1.7M-share float.
How many days to cover does BRID have?
2.2 days: 8K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 4K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is BRID short interest rising or falling?
BRID short interest rose (+8.9%) from 7K to 8K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is BRID a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores BRID 9 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 0.6/40, days to cover 5.5/25, change in short interest vs prior report 2.7/15, price change since settlement date 0/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of BRID daily volume is sold short?
28.1% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 39th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was BRID's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Bridgford Foods Corporation (BRID) was 789 shares, 16.1% of 4,908 total volume.
How many BRID short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Bridgford Foods Corporation (BRID), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did BRID short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Bridgford Foods Corporation (BRID) moved from 17.4% on Oct 30, 2026 to 16.1% on Nov 2, 2026, down 1.3 percentage points.
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