Franklin BSP Realty Trust Inc (FBRT) short interest & short volume · 7.6% of float short
Franklin BSP Realty Trust Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
FBRT short interest was little changed at 6.2M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (7.6% of float, 4.7 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 61.2% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 62.4% the 20 sessions before, the 51st percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 6.2M
- prior 6.2M
- % of float
- 7.6%
- float 81.4M
- Days to cover
- 4.7
- avg vol 1.3M
- Change vs prior report
- -0.8%
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)
- 60.5%
- 159K of 263K
- 20-day average
- 61.2%
- prior 62.4%
- Percentile vs own history
- 51st
- 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: -1.3%
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 · FBRT overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 159,038 | 262,657 | 60.5% |
| 2026-10-30 | 229,218 | 385,597 | 59.4% |
| 2026-10-29 | 500,495 | 1,224,538 | 40.9% |
| 2026-10-28 | 174,425 | 358,926 | 48.6% |
| 2026-10-27 | 164,205 | 391,122 | 42.0% |
| 2026-10-26 | 142,295 | 258,063 | 55.1% |
| 2026-10-23 | 153,983 | 230,130 | 66.9% |
| 2026-10-22 | 177,902 | 308,400 | 57.7% |
| 2026-10-21 | 137,265 | 194,871 | 70.4% |
| 2026-10-20 | 173,231 | 245,865 | 70.5% |
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FBRT is rated 3.19 of 5 among 171 rated Real Estate stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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FBRT short interest FAQ
What is FBRT's short interest?
Franklin BSP Realty Trust Inc (FBRT) had 6.2M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 7.6% of its 81.4M-share float.
How many days to cover does FBRT have?
4.7 days: 6.2M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 1.3M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is FBRT short interest rising or falling?
FBRT short interest was little changed (-0.8%) from 6.2M to 6.2M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is FBRT a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores FBRT 22 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 10.1/40, days to cover 11.7/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, 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 FBRT daily volume is sold short?
61.2% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 51st percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was FBRT's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Franklin BSP Realty Trust Inc (FBRT) was 159,038 shares, 60.5% of 262,657 total volume.
How many FBRT short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Franklin BSP Realty Trust Inc (FBRT), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did FBRT short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Franklin BSP Realty Trust Inc (FBRT) moved from 59.4% on Oct 30, 2026 to 60.5% on Nov 2, 2026, up 1.1 percentage points.
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