Hexcel Corporation (HXL) short interest & short volume · 6.3% of float short
Hexcel Corporation official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
HXL short interest fell 2.5% to 4.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (6.3% of float, 5.1 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 67.3% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 65.7% the 20 sessions before, the 52nd percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 4.7M
- prior 4.8M
- % of float
- 6.3%
- float 74.7M
- Days to cover
- 5.1
- avg vol 907K
- Change vs prior report
- -2.5%
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)
- 71.1%
- 347K of 488K
- 20-day average
- 67.3%
- prior 65.7%
- Percentile vs own history
- 52nd
- 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: -8.9%
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 · HXL overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 347,013 | 488,067 | 71.1% |
| 2026-10-30 | 372,983 | 698,870 | 53.4% |
| 2026-10-29 | 323,468 | 763,722 | 42.4% |
| 2026-10-28 | 352,722 | 657,530 | 53.6% |
| 2026-10-27 | 373,478 | 675,191 | 55.3% |
| 2026-10-26 | 393,414 | 557,658 | 70.5% |
| 2026-10-23 | 443,923 | 765,137 | 58.0% |
| 2026-10-22 | 2,191,478 | 2,819,523 | 77.7% |
| 2026-10-21 | 629,185 | 816,077 | 77.1% |
| 2026-10-20 | 363,926 | 551,373 | 66.0% |
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HXL short interest FAQ
What is HXL's short interest?
Hexcel Corporation (HXL) had 4.7M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 6.3% of its 74.7M-share float.
How many days to cover does HXL have?
5.1 days: 4.7M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 907K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is HXL short interest rising or falling?
HXL short interest fell (-2.5%) from 4.8M to 4.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is HXL a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores HXL 21 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 8.3/40, days to cover 12.9/25, 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 HXL daily volume is sold short?
67.3% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 52nd percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was HXL's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Hexcel Corporation (HXL) was 347,013 shares, 71.1% of 488,067 total volume.
How many HXL short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Hexcel Corporation (HXL), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did HXL short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Hexcel Corporation (HXL) moved from 53.4% on Oct 30, 2026 to 71.1% on Nov 2, 2026, up 17.7 percentage points.
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