California Water Service Group (CWT) short interest & short volume · 3.9% of float short
California Water Service Group official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
CWT short interest fell 6.4% to 2.3M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (3.9% of float, 5.4 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 52.1% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 48.7% the 20 sessions before, the 30th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 2.3M
- prior 2.5M
- % of float
- 3.9%
- float 59.0M
- Days to cover
- 5.4
- avg vol 428K
- Change vs prior report
- -6.4%
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)
- 77.2%
- 163K of 211K
- 20-day average
- 52.1%
- prior 48.7%
- Percentile vs own history
- 30th
- 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: +6.6%
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 · CWT overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 162,686 | 210,752 | 77.2% |
| 2026-10-30 | 90,057 | 141,711 | 63.5% |
| 2026-10-29 | 162,262 | 243,707 | 66.6% |
| 2026-10-28 | 42,633 | 70,309 | 60.6% |
| 2026-10-27 | 53,277 | 71,200 | 74.8% |
| 2026-10-26 | 33,030 | 57,037 | 57.9% |
| 2026-10-23 | 80,416 | 137,510 | 58.5% |
| 2026-10-22 | 43,650 | 89,308 | 48.9% |
| 2026-10-21 | 34,872 | 66,404 | 52.5% |
| 2026-10-20 | 55,763 | 122,394 | 45.6% |
Utilities peers with similar quant ratings
CWT is rated 3.39 of 5 among 78 rated Utilities stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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- EVRG short interest3.45 · Hold · stock
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CWT short interest FAQ
What is CWT's short interest?
California Water Service Group (CWT) had 2.3M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 3.9% of its 59.0M-share float.
How many days to cover does CWT have?
5.4 days: 2.3M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 428K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is CWT short interest rising or falling?
CWT short interest fell (-6.4%) from 2.5M to 2.3M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is CWT a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores CWT 24 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 5.3/40, days to cover 13.6/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 5.3/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of CWT daily volume is sold short?
52.1% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 30th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was CWT's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for California Water Service Group (CWT) was 162,686 shares, 77.2% of 210,752 total volume.
How many CWT short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for California Water Service Group (CWT), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did CWT short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for California Water Service Group (CWT) moved from 63.5% on Oct 30, 2026 to 77.2% on Nov 2, 2026, up 13.7 percentage points.
Not investment advice. Figures as filed or reported, not a live feed.