GeoVax Labs Inc (GOVX) short interest & short volume · 7.8% of float short
GeoVax Labs Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
GOVX short interest fell 4.1% to 270K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (7.8% of float, 1.0 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 31.5% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 50.5% the 20 sessions before, the 0th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 270K
- prior 282K
- % of float
- 7.8%
- float 3.5M
- Days to cover
- 1.0
- avg vol 1.5M
- Change vs prior report
- -4.1%
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)
- 45.9%
- 52K of 114K
- 20-day average
- 31.5%
- prior 50.5%
- Percentile vs own history
- 0th
- 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: -36.3%
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 · GOVX overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 52,357 | 114,013 | 45.9% |
| 2026-10-30 | 62,145 | 163,659 | 38.0% |
| 2026-10-29 | 9,345 | 38,245 | 24.4% |
| 2026-10-28 | 8,749 | 55,298 | 15.8% |
| 2026-10-27 | 19,353 | 88,942 | 21.8% |
| 2026-10-26 | 29,293 | 113,228 | 25.9% |
| 2026-10-23 | 38,856 | 128,653 | 30.2% |
| 2026-10-22 | 22,704 | 60,342 | 37.6% |
| 2026-10-21 | 25,176 | 87,047 | 28.9% |
| 2026-10-20 | 25,425 | 133,703 | 19.0% |
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GOVX among 532 rated Healthcare stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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GOVX short interest FAQ
What is GOVX's short interest?
GeoVax Labs Inc (GOVX) had 270K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 7.8% of its 3.5M-share float.
How many days to cover does GOVX have?
1.0 days: 270K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 1.5M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is GOVX short interest rising or falling?
GOVX short interest fell (-4.1%) from 282K to 270K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is GOVX a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores GOVX 13 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 10.4/40, days to cover 2.5/25, 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 GOVX daily volume is sold short?
31.5% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 0th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was GOVX's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for GeoVax Labs Inc (GOVX) was 52,357 shares, 45.9% of 114,013 total volume.
How many GOVX short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for GeoVax Labs Inc (GOVX), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did GOVX short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for GeoVax Labs Inc (GOVX) moved from 38.0% on Oct 30, 2026 to 45.9% on Nov 2, 2026, up 7.9 percentage points.
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