Capital One Financial Corporation (COF) short interest & short volume · 7.5M shares short
Capital One Financial Corporation official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
COF short interest fell 16.5% to 7.5M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (2.0 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 29.8% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 35.0% the 20 sessions before, the 15th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 7.5M
- prior 9.0M
- % of float
- —
- no float on file
- Days to cover
- 2.0
- avg vol 3.8M
- Change vs prior report
- -16.5%
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.
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)
- 27.8%
- 497K of 1.8M
- 20-day average
- 29.8%
- prior 35.0%
- Percentile vs own history
- 15th
- 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: +5.0%
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 · COF overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 496,586 | 1,787,194 | 27.8% |
| 2026-10-30 | 265,908 | 1,615,889 | 16.5% |
| 2026-10-29 | 398,800 | 1,383,031 | 28.8% |
| 2026-10-28 | 139,358 | 950,290 | 14.7% |
| 2026-10-27 | 290,576 | 792,369 | 36.7% |
| 2026-10-26 | 376,017 | 1,182,937 | 31.8% |
| 2026-10-23 | 336,893 | 1,358,376 | 24.8% |
| 2026-10-22 | 369,782 | 1,811,208 | 20.4% |
| 2026-10-21 | 1,142,699 | 2,705,773 | 42.2% |
| 2026-10-20 | 606,316 | 1,648,053 | 36.8% |
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COF on Lician stock screens
COF is rated Buy (3.94 of 5) and passes 3 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
COF short interest FAQ
What is COF's short interest?
Capital One Financial Corporation (COF) had 7.5M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report.
How many days to cover does COF have?
2.0 days: 7.5M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 3.8M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is COF short interest rising or falling?
COF short interest fell (-16.5%) from 9.0M to 7.5M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is COF a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores COF 9 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: days to cover 5/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 4/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of COF daily volume is sold short?
29.8% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 15th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was COF's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Capital One Financial Corporation (COF) was 496,586 shares, 27.8% of 1,787,194 total volume.
How many COF short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Capital One Financial Corporation (COF), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did COF short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Capital One Financial Corporation (COF) moved from 16.5% on Oct 30, 2026 to 27.8% on Nov 2, 2026, up 11.3 percentage points.
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