Chicago Rivet & Machine Co (CVR) short interest & short volume · 1.6% of float short
Chicago Rivet & Machine Co official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
CVR short interest rose 5.5% to 12K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (1.6% of float, 5.4 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 50.3% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 42.4% the 20 sessions before, the 95th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 17, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 12K
- prior 11K
- % of float
- 1.6%
- float 728K
- Days to cover
- 5.4
- avg vol 2K
- Change vs prior report
- +5.5%
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.
% 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)
- 73.2%
- 60 of 82
- 20-day average
- 50.3%
- prior 42.4%
- Percentile vs own history
- 95th
- 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: -9.9%
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 · CVR overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 60 | 82 | 73.2% |
| 2026-10-30 | 21 | 681 | 3.1% |
| 2026-10-29 | 87 | 184 | 47.3% |
| 2026-10-28 | 806 | 867 | 93.0% |
| 2026-10-27 | 14 | 584 | 2.4% |
| 2026-10-26 | 203 | 294 | 69.0% |
| 2026-10-23 | 501 | 624 | 80.3% |
| 2026-10-22 | 4 | 18 | 22.2% |
| 2026-10-21 | 17 | 128 | 13.3% |
| 2026-10-20 | 1,104 | 2,381 | 46.4% |
Industrials peers with similar quant ratings
CVR among 418 rated Industrials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
- WTS short interest5.00 · Strong Buy · stock
- AER short interest4.99 · Strong Buy · stock
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- ATRO short interest4.97 · Strong Buy
- GEO short interest4.96 · Strong Buy · stock
- TDG short interest4.95 · Strong Buy · stock
- DAC short interest4.94 · Strong Buy
- RJET short interest4.93 · Strong Buy · stock
CVR short interest FAQ
What is CVR's short interest?
Chicago Rivet & Machine Co (CVR) had 12K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 1.6% of its 728K-share float.
How many days to cover does CVR have?
5.4 days: 12K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 2K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is CVR short interest rising or falling?
CVR short interest rose (+5.5%) from 11K to 12K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is CVR a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores CVR 17 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 2.1/40, days to cover 13.5/25, change in short interest vs prior report 1.7/15, 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 CVR daily volume is sold short?
50.3% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 95th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was CVR's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Chicago Rivet & Machine Co (CVR) was 60 shares, 73.2% of 82 total volume.
How many CVR short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Chicago Rivet & Machine Co (CVR), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did CVR short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Chicago Rivet & Machine Co (CVR) moved from 3.1% on Oct 30, 2026 to 73.2% on Nov 2, 2026, up 70.1 percentage points.
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