H&R Block Inc (HRB) short interest & short volume · 14.0% of float short
H&R Block Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
HRB short interest was little changed at 18.6M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (14.0% of float, 10.2 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 69.7% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 63.4% the 20 sessions before, the 100th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 18.6M
- prior 18.6M
- % of float
- 14.0%
- float 132.7M
- Days to cover
- 10.2
- avg vol 1.8M
- Change vs prior report
- +0.2%
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)
- 71.4%
- 413K of 577K
- 20-day average
- 69.7%
- prior 63.4%
- Percentile vs own history
- 100th
- 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: +10.0%
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 · HRB overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 412,508 | 577,397 | 71.4% |
| 2026-10-30 | 546,607 | 835,951 | 65.4% |
| 2026-10-29 | 440,621 | 578,861 | 76.1% |
| 2026-10-28 | 245,342 | 386,751 | 63.4% |
| 2026-10-27 | 409,738 | 748,921 | 54.7% |
| 2026-10-26 | 391,421 | 543,460 | 72.0% |
| 2026-10-23 | 328,382 | 460,337 | 71.3% |
| 2026-10-22 | 492,476 | 696,154 | 70.7% |
| 2026-10-21 | 315,321 | 398,150 | 79.2% |
| 2026-10-20 | 421,983 | 775,735 | 54.4% |
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HRB is rated 4.66 of 5 among 333 rated Consumer Discretionary stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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HRB short interest FAQ
What is HRB's short interest?
H&R Block Inc (HRB) had 18.6M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 14.0% of its 132.7M-share float.
How many days to cover does HRB have?
10.2 days: 18.6M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 1.8M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is HRB short interest rising or falling?
HRB short interest was little changed (+0.2%) from 18.6M to 18.6M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is HRB a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores HRB 52 out of 100 (elevated) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 18.7/40, days to cover 25/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0.1/15, price change since settlement date 8/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of HRB daily volume is sold short?
69.7% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 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 HRB's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for H&R Block Inc (HRB) was 412,508 shares, 71.4% of 577,397 total volume.
How many HRB short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for H&R Block Inc (HRB), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did HRB short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for H&R Block Inc (HRB) moved from 65.4% on Oct 30, 2026 to 71.4% on Nov 2, 2026, up 6.0 percentage points.
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