Healthcare Services Group Inc (HCSG) short interest & short volume · 4.0% of float short
Healthcare Services Group Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
HCSG short interest rose 1.6% to 2.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (4.0% of float, 3.9 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 58.7% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 53.2% the 20 sessions before, the 70th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 2.7M
- prior 2.7M
- % of float
- 4.0%
- float 67.9M
- Days to cover
- 3.9
- avg vol 696K
- Change vs prior report
- +1.6%
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)
- 59.9%
- 143K of 239K
- 20-day average
- 58.7%
- prior 53.2%
- Percentile vs own history
- 70th
- 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: +19.3%
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 · HCSG overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 143,076 | 239,000 | 59.9% |
| 2026-10-30 | 98,460 | 186,292 | 52.9% |
| 2026-10-29 | 141,535 | 236,693 | 59.8% |
| 2026-10-28 | 174,600 | 307,882 | 56.7% |
| 2026-10-27 | 180,031 | 297,815 | 60.5% |
| 2026-10-26 | 183,037 | 302,350 | 60.5% |
| 2026-10-23 | 189,962 | 372,358 | 51.0% |
| 2026-10-22 | 211,272 | 418,435 | 50.5% |
| 2026-10-21 | 294,845 | 553,725 | 53.3% |
| 2026-10-20 | 157,884 | 256,191 | 61.6% |
Healthcare peers with similar quant ratings
HCSG is rated 4.46 of 5 among 532 rated Healthcare stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
- TECH short interest4.50 · Strong Buy · stock
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- RVTY short interest4.47 · Buy · stock
- CAH short interest4.45 · Buy · stock
- DXCM short interest4.45 · Buy · stock
- ICLR short interest4.44 · Buy · stock
- TGTX short interest4.43 · Buy · stock
HCSG on Lician stock screens
HCSG is rated Buy (4.46 of 5) and passes 1 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
HCSG short interest FAQ
What is HCSG's short interest?
Healthcare Services Group Inc (HCSG) had 2.7M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 4.0% of its 67.9M-share float.
How many days to cover does HCSG have?
3.9 days: 2.7M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 696K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is HCSG short interest rising or falling?
HCSG short interest rose (+1.6%) from 2.7M to 2.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is HCSG a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores HCSG 31 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 5.3/40, days to cover 9.8/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0.5/15, price change since settlement date 15.4/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of HCSG daily volume is sold short?
58.7% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 70th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was HCSG's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Healthcare Services Group Inc (HCSG) was 143,076 shares, 59.9% of 239,000 total volume.
How many HCSG short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Healthcare Services Group Inc (HCSG), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did HCSG short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Healthcare Services Group Inc (HCSG) moved from 52.9% on Oct 30, 2026 to 59.9% on Nov 2, 2026, up 7.0 percentage points.
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