Canadian Natural Resources Ltd (CNQ) short interest & short volume · 2.9% of float short
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
CNQ short interest fell 49.3% to 59.4M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (2.9% of float, 11.7 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 53.0% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 47.3% the 20 sessions before, the 74th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 59.4M
- prior 117.1M
- % of float
- 2.9%
- float 2.05B
- Days to cover
- 11.7
- avg vol 5.1M
- Change vs prior report
- -49.3%
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)
- 60.4%
- 894K of 1.5M
- 20-day average
- 53.0%
- prior 47.3%
- Percentile vs own history
- 74th
- 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: +3.2%
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 · CNQ overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 894,477 | 1,481,419 | 60.4% |
| 2026-10-30 | 1,198,449 | 2,088,290 | 57.4% |
| 2026-10-29 | 633,660 | 1,322,167 | 47.9% |
| 2026-10-28 | 612,273 | 1,029,690 | 59.5% |
| 2026-10-27 | 525,600 | 1,097,624 | 47.9% |
| 2026-10-26 | 326,860 | 1,077,928 | 30.3% |
| 2026-10-23 | 527,867 | 1,229,262 | 42.9% |
| 2026-10-22 | 889,516 | 1,337,586 | 66.5% |
| 2026-10-21 | 623,415 | 1,078,426 | 57.8% |
| 2026-10-20 | 377,868 | 962,857 | 39.2% |
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CNQ on Lician stock screens
CNQ is rated Strong Buy (4.83 of 5) and passes 3 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
CNQ short interest FAQ
What is CNQ's short interest?
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd (CNQ) had 59.4M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 2.9% of its 2.05B-share float.
How many days to cover does CNQ have?
11.7 days: 59.4M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 5.1M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is CNQ short interest rising or falling?
CNQ short interest fell (-49.3%) from 117.1M to 59.4M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is CNQ a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores CNQ 32 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 3.9/40, days to cover 25/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 2.6/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of CNQ daily volume is sold short?
53.0% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 74th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was CNQ's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Canadian Natural Resources Ltd (CNQ) was 894,477 shares, 60.4% of 1,481,419 total volume.
How many CNQ short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Canadian Natural Resources Ltd (CNQ), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did CNQ short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Canadian Natural Resources Ltd (CNQ) moved from 57.4% on Oct 30, 2026 to 60.4% on Nov 2, 2026, up 3.0 percentage points.
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