Genius Sports Ltd (GENI) short interest & short volume · 19.6% of float short
Genius Sports Ltd official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
GENI short interest rose 10.7% to 42.0M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (19.6% of float, 5.7 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 54.6% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 49.6% the 20 sessions before, the 82nd percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 42.0M
- prior 38.0M
- % of float
- 19.6%
- float 214.9M
- Days to cover
- 5.7
- avg vol 7.4M
- Change vs prior report
- +10.7%
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)
- 47.8%
- 1.1M of 2.4M
- 20-day average
- 54.6%
- prior 49.6%
- Percentile vs own history
- 82nd
- 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: +3.3%
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 · GENI overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 1,134,035 | 2,374,463 | 47.8% |
| 2026-10-30 | 1,398,565 | 3,080,755 | 45.4% |
| 2026-10-29 | 1,249,765 | 2,160,131 | 57.9% |
| 2026-10-28 | 1,258,092 | 2,302,938 | 54.6% |
| 2026-10-27 | 897,387 | 1,914,837 | 46.9% |
| 2026-10-26 | 2,308,046 | 6,495,085 | 35.5% |
| 2026-10-23 | 941,597 | 1,982,432 | 47.5% |
| 2026-10-22 | 1,109,119 | 2,397,659 | 46.3% |
| 2026-10-21 | 910,764 | 1,653,461 | 55.1% |
| 2026-10-20 | 1,003,447 | 2,041,946 | 49.1% |
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GENI short interest FAQ
What is GENI's short interest?
Genius Sports Ltd (GENI) had 42.0M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 19.6% of its 214.9M-share float.
How many days to cover does GENI have?
5.7 days: 42.0M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 7.4M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is GENI short interest rising or falling?
GENI short interest rose (+10.7%) from 38.0M to 42.0M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is GENI a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores GENI 46 out of 100 (elevated) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 26.1/40, days to cover 14.2/25, change in short interest vs prior report 3.2/15, price change since settlement date 2.6/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of GENI daily volume is sold short?
54.6% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 82nd percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was GENI's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Genius Sports Ltd (GENI) was 1,134,035 shares, 47.8% of 2,374,463 total volume.
How many GENI short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Genius Sports Ltd (GENI), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did GENI short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Genius Sports Ltd (GENI) moved from 45.4% on Oct 30, 2026 to 47.8% on Nov 2, 2026, up 2.4 percentage points.
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