HCHL stock
Happy City Holdings Limited Class A Ordinary shares (HCHL) short interest & short volume · 4.2% of float short
Happy City Holdings Limited Class A Ordinary shares official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
HCHL short interest fell 1.5% to 320K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (4.2% of float). Daily short volume averaged 50.7% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 45.5% the 20 sessions before, the 100th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 16, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 320K
- prior 325K
- % of float
- 4.2%
- float 7.6M
- Days to cover
- —
- Change vs prior report
- -1.5%
| Report date | Shares short | $ value short | Change | % float | Days to cover | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 | 320K | $1.3M | -1.5% | 4.2% | — | $3.96 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 325K | $1.3M | -0.1% | 4.3% | — | $3.96 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 325K | $1.3M | +39.4% | 4.3% | — | $3.96 |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 233K | $924K | 0.0% | 3.1% | — | $3.96 |
| Aug 14, 2026 | 233K | $924K | 0.0% | 3.1% | — | $3.96 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | 233K | — | 0.0% | 3.1% | — | — |
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 (Jun 4)
- 61.0%
- 58K of 95K
- 20-day average
- 50.7%
- prior 45.5%
- Percentile vs own history
- 100th
- 155 periods since 2025
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Source: FINRA Reg SHO daily short sale volume · Latest Jun 4, 2026
Short squeeze score (model)
Price since settlement: 0.0%
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 · HCHL overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-04 | 57,936 | 94,907 | 61.0% |
| 2026-06-03 | 89,528 | 171,683 | 52.1% |
| 2026-06-02 | 393,126 | 632,444 | 62.2% |
| 2026-06-01 | 534,516 | 778,342 | 68.7% |
| 2026-05-29 | 385,498 | 726,597 | 53.1% |
| 2026-05-28 | 477,470 | 627,898 | 76.0% |
| 2026-05-27 | 239,994 | 456,302 | 52.6% |
| 2026-05-26 | 528,930 | 1,137,813 | 46.5% |
| 2026-05-22 | 65,609 | 197,677 | 33.2% |
| 2026-05-21 | 67,438 | 311,809 | 21.6% |
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HCHL short interest FAQ
What is HCHL's short interest?
Happy City Holdings Limited Class A Ordinary shares (HCHL) had 320K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 4.2% of its 7.6M-share float.
Is HCHL short interest rising or falling?
HCHL short interest fell (-1.5%) from 325K to 320K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is HCHL a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores HCHL 6 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 5.6/40, 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 HCHL daily volume is sold short?
50.7% on average over the last 20 sessions to Jun 4, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 100th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was HCHL's latest FINRA short volume?
On Jun 4, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Happy City Holdings Limited Class A Ordinary shares (HCHL) was 57,936 shares, 61.0% of 94,907 total volume.
How many HCHL short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Happy City Holdings Limited Class A Ordinary shares (HCHL), from May 21, 2026 through Jun 4, 2026.
How did HCHL short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Happy City Holdings Limited Class A Ordinary shares (HCHL) moved from 52.1% on Jun 3, 2026 to 61.0% on Jun 4, 2026, up 8.9 percentage points.
What was the highest HCHL short volume percent on this page?
The highest cached FINRA short volume on this page is 76.0% of total volume on May 28, 2026.
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