Clearway Energy Inc Class C (CWEN) short interest & short volume · 6.8% of float short
Clearway Energy Inc Class C official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
CWEN short interest rose 3.3% to 7.9M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (6.8% of float, 6.8 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 64.4% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 67.3% the 20 sessions before, the 54th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 7.9M
- prior 7.6M
- % of float
- 6.8%
- float 116.8M
- Days to cover
- 6.8
- avg vol 1.2M
- Change vs prior report
- +3.3%
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)
- 91.0%
- 2.0M of 2.2M
- 20-day average
- 64.4%
- prior 67.3%
- Percentile vs own history
- 54th
- 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: +14.9%
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 · CWEN overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 2,000,952 | 2,198,804 | 91.0% |
| 2026-10-30 | 274,465 | 619,156 | 44.3% |
| 2026-10-29 | 215,714 | 462,321 | 46.7% |
| 2026-10-28 | 347,648 | 457,847 | 75.9% |
| 2026-10-27 | 203,640 | 298,473 | 68.2% |
| 2026-10-26 | 226,512 | 359,918 | 62.9% |
| 2026-10-23 | 161,332 | 258,344 | 62.5% |
| 2026-10-22 | 245,557 | 419,617 | 58.5% |
| 2026-10-21 | 402,673 | 524,808 | 76.7% |
| 2026-10-20 | 226,118 | 406,803 | 55.6% |
Utilities peers with similar quant ratings
CWEN is rated 2.34 of 5 among 78 rated Utilities stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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CWEN short interest FAQ
What is CWEN's short interest?
Clearway Energy Inc Class C (CWEN) had 7.9M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 6.8% of its 116.8M-share float.
How many days to cover does CWEN have?
6.8 days: 7.9M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 1.2M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is CWEN short interest rising or falling?
CWEN short interest rose (+3.3%) from 7.6M to 7.9M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is CWEN a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores CWEN 39 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 9/40, days to cover 16.9/25, change in short interest vs prior report 1/15, price change since settlement date 11.9/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of CWEN daily volume is sold short?
64.4% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 54th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was CWEN's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Clearway Energy Inc Class C (CWEN) was 2,000,952 shares, 91.0% of 2,198,804 total volume.
How many CWEN short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Clearway Energy Inc Class C (CWEN), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did CWEN short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Clearway Energy Inc Class C (CWEN) moved from 44.3% on Oct 30, 2026 to 91.0% on Nov 2, 2026, up 46.7 percentage points.
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