Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (HPE) short interest & short volume · 4.0% of float short
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
HPE short interest rose 3.8% to 52.2M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (4.0% of float, 2.4 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 37.5% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 51.0% 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
- 52.2M
- prior 50.2M
- % of float
- 4.0%
- float 1.31B
- Days to cover
- 2.4
- avg vol 21.6M
- Change vs prior report
- +3.8%
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)
- 26.3%
- 1.9M of 7.3M
- 20-day average
- 37.5%
- prior 51.0%
- 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: -9.4%
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 · HPE overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 1,915,547 | 7,271,199 | 26.3% |
| 2026-10-30 | 1,652,055 | 6,253,749 | 26.4% |
| 2026-10-29 | 727,514 | 2,895,534 | 25.1% |
| 2026-10-28 | 1,492,145 | 3,783,677 | 39.4% |
| 2026-10-27 | 2,048,191 | 4,200,078 | 48.8% |
| 2026-10-26 | 1,376,383 | 3,872,981 | 35.5% |
| 2026-10-23 | 1,213,952 | 4,895,164 | 24.8% |
| 2026-10-22 | 1,489,850 | 5,654,160 | 26.4% |
| 2026-10-21 | 1,895,688 | 5,566,145 | 34.1% |
| 2026-10-20 | 1,830,239 | 6,076,490 | 30.1% |
Technology peers with similar quant ratings
HPE is rated 4.83 of 5 among 462 rated Technology stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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HPE short interest FAQ
What is HPE's short interest?
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (HPE) had 52.2M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 4.0% of its 1.31B-share float.
How many days to cover does HPE have?
2.4 days: 52.2M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 21.6M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is HPE short interest rising or falling?
HPE short interest rose (+3.8%) from 50.2M to 52.2M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is HPE a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores HPE 12 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 5.3/40, days to cover 6.1/25, change in short interest vs prior report 1.1/15, 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 HPE daily volume is sold short?
37.5% 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 HPE's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (HPE) was 1,915,547 shares, 26.3% of 7,271,199 total volume.
How many HPE short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (HPE), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did HPE short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (HPE) moved from 26.4% on Oct 30, 2026 to 26.3% on Nov 2, 2026, down 0.1 percentage points.
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