FQAL stock
Fidelity® Quality Factor ETF (FQAL) short interest & short volume · 149K shares short
Fidelity® Quality Factor ETF official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
FQAL short interest rose 4353.6% to 149K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (2.3 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 80.8% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 39.0% the 20 sessions before, the 99th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Oct 6, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 149K
- prior 3K
- % of float
- —
- no float on file
- Days to cover
- 2.3
- avg vol 64K
- Change vs prior report
- +4353.6%
| Report date | Shares short | $ value short | Change | % float | Days to cover | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 | 149K | $12.6M | +4353.6% | — | 2.3 | $84.95 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 3K | $278K | -10.3% | — | 1.0 | $83.25 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 4K | $310K | -39.1% | — | 1.0 | $83.20 |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 6K | $518K | -88.8% | — | 1.0 | $84.69 |
| Aug 14, 2026 | 55K | $4.6M | -9.7% | — | 1.5 | $85.11 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | 60K | $5.0M | +170.4% | — | 1.3 | $82.23 |
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 11)
- 91.5%
- 134K of 147K
- 20-day average
- 80.8%
- prior 39.0%
- Percentile vs own history
- 99th
- 233 periods since 2025
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Source: FINRA Reg SHO daily short sale volume · Latest Nov 11, 2026
Short squeeze score (model)
Price since settlement: -1.7%
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 · FQAL overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-11 | 134,052 | 146,513 | 91.5% |
| 2026-11-10 | 188,237 | 204,002 | 92.3% |
| 2026-11-09 | 42,288 | 84,010 | 50.3% |
| 2026-11-06 | 145,177 | 170,289 | 85.3% |
| 2026-11-05 | 160,004 | 207,067 | 77.3% |
| 2026-11-04 | 51,156 | 67,518 | 75.8% |
| 2026-11-03 | 49,568 | 73,692 | 67.3% |
| 2026-11-02 | 328,411 | 352,818 | 93.1% |
| 2026-10-30 | 112,131 | 146,969 | 76.3% |
| 2026-10-29 | 36,745 | 88,951 | 41.3% |
FQAL short interest FAQ
What is FQAL's short interest?
Fidelity® Quality Factor ETF (FQAL) had 149K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report.
How many days to cover does FQAL have?
2.3 days: 149K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 64K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is FQAL short interest rising or falling?
FQAL short interest rose (+4353.6%) from 3K to 149K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is FQAL a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores FQAL 21 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: days to cover 5.9/25, change in short interest vs prior report 15/15, 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 FQAL daily volume is sold short?
80.8% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 11, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 99th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was FQAL's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 11, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Fidelity® Quality Factor ETF (FQAL) was 134,052 shares, 91.5% of 146,513 total volume.
How many FQAL short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Fidelity® Quality Factor ETF (FQAL), from Oct 29, 2026 through Nov 11, 2026.
How did FQAL short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Fidelity® Quality Factor ETF (FQAL) moved from 92.3% on Nov 10, 2026 to 91.5% on Nov 11, 2026, down 0.8 percentage points.
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