Home Federal Bancorp Louisiana (HFBL) short interest & short volume · 0.3% of float short
Home Federal Bancorp Louisiana official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
HFBL short interest fell 4.8% to 5K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (0.3% of float, 4.9 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 20.7% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 29.6% the 20 sessions before, the 4th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 16, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 5K
- prior 5K
- % of float
- 0.3%
- float 1.9M
- Days to cover
- 4.9
- avg vol 1K
- Change vs prior report
- -4.8%
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)
- 54.8%
- 384 of 701
- 20-day average
- 20.7%
- prior 29.6%
- Percentile vs own history
- 4th
- 232 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: -6.3%
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 · HFBL overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 384 | 701 | 54.8% |
| 2026-10-30 | 16 | 2,471 | 0.7% |
| 2026-10-29 | 71 | 142 | 50.0% |
| 2026-10-28 | 11 | 1,260 | 0.9% |
| 2026-10-27 | 1,327 | 4,147 | 32.0% |
| 2026-10-26 | 170 | 12,268 | 1.4% |
| 2026-10-23 | 5 | 475 | 1.1% |
| 2026-10-22 | 709 | 4,913 | 14.4% |
| 2026-10-20 | 412 | 2,442 | 16.9% |
| 2026-10-19 | 91 | 1,518 | 6.0% |
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HFBL among 516 rated Financials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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HFBL short interest FAQ
What is HFBL's short interest?
Home Federal Bancorp Louisiana (HFBL) had 5K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 0.3% of its 1.9M-share float.
How many days to cover does HFBL have?
4.9 days: 5K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 1K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is HFBL short interest rising or falling?
HFBL short interest fell (-4.8%) from 5K to 5K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is HFBL a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores HFBL 13 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 0.4/40, days to cover 12.3/25, 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 HFBL daily volume is sold short?
20.7% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 4th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was HFBL's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Home Federal Bancorp Louisiana (HFBL) was 384 shares, 54.8% of 701 total volume.
How many HFBL short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Home Federal Bancorp Louisiana (HFBL), from Oct 19, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did HFBL short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Home Federal Bancorp Louisiana (HFBL) moved from 0.7% on Oct 30, 2026 to 54.8% on Nov 2, 2026, up 54.1 percentage points.
Not investment advice. Figures as filed or reported, not a live feed.