Cardlytics Inc (CDLX) short interest & short volume · 1.1% of float short
Cardlytics Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
CDLX short interest fell 16.1% to 498K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (1.1% of float, 5.4 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 50.9% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 38.3% the 20 sessions before, the 80th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 498K
- prior 594K
- % of float
- 1.1%
- float 45.5M
- Days to cover
- 5.4
- avg vol 92K
- Change vs prior report
- -16.1%
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)
- 67.5%
- 90K of 133K
- 20-day average
- 50.9%
- prior 38.3%
- Percentile vs own history
- 80th
- 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: +1.5%
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 · CDLX overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 89,973 | 133,282 | 67.5% |
| 2026-10-30 | 84,509 | 97,346 | 86.8% |
| 2026-10-29 | 2,353 | 11,043 | 21.3% |
| 2026-10-28 | 11,199 | 25,535 | 43.9% |
| 2026-10-27 | 11,426 | 24,981 | 45.7% |
| 2026-10-26 | 7,407 | 16,037 | 46.2% |
| 2026-10-23 | 35,850 | 51,852 | 69.1% |
| 2026-10-22 | 8,617 | 17,322 | 49.8% |
| 2026-10-21 | 1,953 | 5,082 | 38.4% |
| 2026-10-20 | 14,570 | 21,625 | 67.4% |
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CDLX among 108 rated Communication Services stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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CDLX short interest FAQ
What is CDLX's short interest?
Cardlytics Inc (CDLX) had 498K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 1.1% of its 45.5M-share float.
How many days to cover does CDLX have?
5.4 days: 498K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 92K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is CDLX short interest rising or falling?
CDLX short interest fell (-16.1%) from 594K to 498K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is CDLX a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores CDLX 16 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 1.5/40, days to cover 13.5/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 1.2/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of CDLX daily volume is sold short?
50.9% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 80th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was CDLX's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Cardlytics Inc (CDLX) was 89,973 shares, 67.5% of 133,282 total volume.
How many CDLX short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Cardlytics Inc (CDLX), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did CDLX short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Cardlytics Inc (CDLX) moved from 86.8% on Oct 30, 2026 to 67.5% on Nov 2, 2026, down 19.3 percentage points.
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