Hawkins Inc (HWKN) short interest & short volume · 13.7% of float short
Hawkins Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
HWKN short interest rose 1.4% to 1.3M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (13.7% of float, 9.9 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 66.3% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 58.5% the 20 sessions before, the 45th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 1.3M
- prior 1.3M
- % of float
- 13.7%
- float 9.7M
- Days to cover
- 9.9
- avg vol 133K
- Change vs prior report
- +1.4%
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)
- 77.7%
- 46K of 59K
- 20-day average
- 66.3%
- prior 58.5%
- Percentile vs own history
- 45th
- 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: +16.0%
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 · HWKN overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 45,502 | 58,555 | 77.7% |
| 2026-10-30 | 29,716 | 41,384 | 71.8% |
| 2026-10-29 | 29,245 | 37,639 | 77.7% |
| 2026-10-28 | 64,397 | 86,793 | 74.2% |
| 2026-10-27 | 123,837 | 153,834 | 80.5% |
| 2026-10-26 | 28,986 | 60,481 | 47.9% |
| 2026-10-23 | 23,095 | 42,183 | 54.8% |
| 2026-10-22 | 46,546 | 111,318 | 41.8% |
| 2026-10-21 | 30,092 | 52,336 | 57.5% |
| 2026-10-20 | 33,612 | 56,522 | 59.5% |
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HWKN on Lician stock screens
HWKN is rated Buy (3.70 of 5) and passes 2 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
HWKN short interest FAQ
What is HWKN's short interest?
Hawkins Inc (HWKN) had 1.3M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 13.7% of its 9.7M-share float.
How many days to cover does HWKN have?
9.9 days: 1.3M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 133K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is HWKN short interest rising or falling?
HWKN short interest rose (+1.4%) from 1.3M to 1.3M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is HWKN a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores HWKN 56 out of 100 (elevated) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 18.2/40, days to cover 24.8/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0.4/15, price change since settlement date 12.8/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of HWKN daily volume is sold short?
66.3% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 45th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was HWKN's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Hawkins Inc (HWKN) was 45,502 shares, 77.7% of 58,555 total volume.
How many HWKN short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Hawkins Inc (HWKN), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did HWKN short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Hawkins Inc (HWKN) moved from 71.8% on Oct 30, 2026 to 77.7% on Nov 2, 2026, up 5.9 percentage points.
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