High Tide Inc (HITI) short interest & short volume · 1.1% of float short
High Tide Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
HITI short interest rose 19.3% to 880K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (1.1% of float, 1.7 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 42.5% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 52.8% the 20 sessions before, the 49th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 880K
- prior 738K
- % of float
- 1.1%
- float 77.1M
- Days to cover
- 1.7
- avg vol 521K
- Change vs prior report
- +19.3%
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)
- 23.0%
- 59K of 257K
- 20-day average
- 42.5%
- prior 52.8%
- Percentile vs own history
- 49th
- 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: +6.6%
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 · HITI overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 59,049 | 256,531 | 23.0% |
| 2026-10-30 | 99,056 | 238,628 | 41.5% |
| 2026-10-29 | 36,386 | 87,685 | 41.5% |
| 2026-10-28 | 29,397 | 95,095 | 30.9% |
| 2026-10-27 | 43,123 | 129,474 | 33.3% |
| 2026-10-26 | 60,735 | 98,406 | 61.7% |
| 2026-10-23 | 24,030 | 126,988 | 18.9% |
| 2026-10-22 | 40,465 | 137,341 | 29.5% |
| 2026-10-21 | 82,221 | 119,674 | 68.7% |
| 2026-10-20 | 36,281 | 101,643 | 35.7% |
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HITI short interest FAQ
What is HITI's short interest?
High Tide Inc (HITI) had 880K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 1.1% of its 77.1M-share float.
How many days to cover does HITI have?
1.7 days: 880K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 521K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is HITI short interest rising or falling?
HITI short interest rose (+19.3%) from 738K to 880K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is HITI a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores HITI 17 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 1.5/40, days to cover 4.2/25, change in short interest vs prior report 5.8/15, price change since settlement date 5.3/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of HITI daily volume is sold short?
42.5% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 49th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was HITI's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for High Tide Inc (HITI) was 59,049 shares, 23.0% of 256,531 total volume.
How many HITI short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for High Tide Inc (HITI), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did HITI short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for High Tide Inc (HITI) moved from 41.5% on Oct 30, 2026 to 23.0% on Nov 2, 2026, down 18.5 percentage points.
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