KELYA stock
Kelly Services A Inc (KELYA) short interest & short volume · 3.5% of float short
Kelly Services A Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
KELYA short interest rose 3.1% to 1.1M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (3.5% of float, 4.0 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 61.8% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 61.0% the 20 sessions before, the 82nd percentile of its own 20-day averages since Oct 6, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 1.1M
- prior 1.1M
- % of float
- 3.5%
- float 30.7M
- Days to cover
- 4.0
- avg vol 270K
- Change vs prior report
- +3.1%
| Report date | Shares short | $ value short | Change | % float | Days to cover | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 | 1.1M | $16.9M | +3.1% | 3.5% | 4.0 | $15.57 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 1.1M | $17.1M | -11.3% | 3.4% | 3.8 | $16.21 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 1.2M | $19.5M | -3.3% | 3.9% | 4.6 | $16.45 |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 1.2M | $21.1M | -4.9% | 4.0% | 4.0 | $17.20 |
| Aug 14, 2026 | 1.3M | $20.8M | -4.4% | 4.2% | 3.6 | $16.06 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | 1.4M | $20.1M | -9.2% | 4.4% | 3.5 | $14.84 |
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 11)
- 61.5%
- 67K of 109K
- 20-day average
- 61.8%
- prior 61.0%
- Percentile vs own history
- 82nd
- 233 periods since 2025
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Source: FINRA Reg SHO daily short sale volume · Latest Nov 11, 2026
Short squeeze score (model)
Price since settlement: -11.4%
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 · KELYA overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-11 | 66,957 | 108,819 | 61.5% |
| 2026-11-10 | 69,739 | 94,953 | 73.5% |
| 2026-11-09 | 74,423 | 141,024 | 52.8% |
| 2026-11-06 | 147,781 | 219,322 | 67.4% |
| 2026-11-05 | 140,258 | 278,885 | 50.3% |
| 2026-11-04 | 78,888 | 116,887 | 67.5% |
| 2026-11-03 | 28,555 | 50,103 | 57.0% |
| 2026-11-02 | 27,800 | 48,118 | 57.8% |
| 2026-10-30 | 20,540 | 32,246 | 63.7% |
| 2026-10-29 | 35,902 | 65,144 | 55.1% |
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KELYA short interest FAQ
What is KELYA's short interest?
Kelly Services A Inc (KELYA) had 1.1M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 3.5% of its 30.7M-share float.
How many days to cover does KELYA have?
4.0 days: 1.1M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 270K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is KELYA short interest rising or falling?
KELYA short interest rose (+3.1%) from 1.1M to 1.1M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is KELYA a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores KELYA 16 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 4.7/40, days to cover 10.1/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0.9/15, 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 KELYA daily volume is sold short?
61.8% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 11, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 82nd percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was KELYA's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 11, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Kelly Services A Inc (KELYA) was 66,957 shares, 61.5% of 108,819 total volume.
How many KELYA short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Kelly Services A Inc (KELYA), from Oct 29, 2026 through Nov 11, 2026.
How did KELYA short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Kelly Services A Inc (KELYA) moved from 73.5% on Nov 10, 2026 to 61.5% on Nov 11, 2026, down 12.0 percentage points.
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