Kemper Corporation 5.875% Fixed (KMPB) short interest & short volume · 1K shares short
Kemper Corporation 5.875% Fixed official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
KMPB short interest fell 22.6% to 1K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (1.0 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 30.4% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 34.7% the 20 sessions before, the 1st percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 1K
- prior 1K
- % of float
- —
- no float on file
- Days to cover
- 1.0
- avg vol 15K
- Change vs prior report
- -22.6%
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.
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)
- 37.0%
- 5K of 14K
- 20-day average
- 30.4%
- prior 34.7%
- Percentile vs own history
- 1st
- 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: +1.7%
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 · KMPB overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 5,110 | 13,819 | 37.0% |
| 2026-10-30 | 4,802 | 16,176 | 29.7% |
| 2026-10-29 | 3,277 | 16,467 | 19.9% |
| 2026-10-28 | 1,544 | 10,410 | 14.8% |
| 2026-10-27 | 2,871 | 13,968 | 20.6% |
| 2026-10-26 | 1,550 | 9,826 | 15.8% |
| 2026-10-23 | 4,759 | 19,519 | 24.4% |
| 2026-10-22 | 1,882 | 9,324 | 20.2% |
| 2026-10-21 | 873 | 5,075 | 17.2% |
| 2026-10-20 | 868 | 1,967 | 44.1% |
Financials peers with similar quant ratings
KMPB among 516 rated Financials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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KMPB short interest FAQ
What is KMPB's short interest?
Kemper Corporation 5.875% Fixed (KMPB) had 1K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report.
How many days to cover does KMPB have?
1.0 days: 1K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 15K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is KMPB short interest rising or falling?
KMPB short interest fell (-22.6%) from 1K to 1K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is KMPB a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores KMPB 4 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: days to cover 2.5/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 1.4/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of KMPB daily volume is sold short?
30.4% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 1st percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was KMPB's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Kemper Corporation 5.875% Fixed (KMPB) was 5,110 shares, 37.0% of 13,819 total volume.
How many KMPB short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Kemper Corporation 5.875% Fixed (KMPB), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did KMPB short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Kemper Corporation 5.875% Fixed (KMPB) moved from 29.7% on Oct 30, 2026 to 37.0% on Nov 2, 2026, up 7.3 percentage points.
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