Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS) short interest & short volume · 5.3% of float short
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
KTOS short interest fell 1.1% to 9.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (5.3% of float, 2.0 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 41.3% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 44.1% the 20 sessions before, the 4th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 9.7M
- prior 9.8M
- % of float
- 5.3%
- float 184.7M
- Days to cover
- 2.0
- avg vol 4.9M
- Change vs prior report
- -1.1%
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)
- 41.5%
- 650K of 1.6M
- 20-day average
- 41.3%
- prior 44.1%
- Percentile vs own history
- 4th
- 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: +0.6%
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 · KTOS overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 649,792 | 1,567,401 | 41.5% |
| 2026-10-30 | 663,292 | 1,544,244 | 43.0% |
| 2026-10-29 | 1,164,011 | 3,094,725 | 37.6% |
| 2026-10-28 | 509,848 | 1,113,341 | 45.8% |
| 2026-10-27 | 960,355 | 1,855,503 | 51.8% |
| 2026-10-26 | 557,096 | 1,638,216 | 34.0% |
| 2026-10-23 | 607,422 | 1,902,593 | 31.9% |
| 2026-10-22 | 625,445 | 1,830,593 | 34.2% |
| 2026-10-21 | 672,779 | 1,634,039 | 41.2% |
| 2026-10-20 | 525,758 | 1,415,690 | 37.1% |
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KTOS is rated 2.01 of 5 among 418 rated Industrials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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KTOS short interest FAQ
What is KTOS's short interest?
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS) had 9.7M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 5.3% of its 184.7M-share float.
How many days to cover does KTOS have?
2.0 days: 9.7M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 4.9M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is KTOS short interest rising or falling?
KTOS short interest fell (-1.1%) from 9.8M to 9.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is KTOS a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores KTOS 12 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 7/40, days to cover 4.9/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 0.5/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of KTOS daily volume is sold short?
41.3% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 4th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was KTOS's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS) was 649,792 shares, 41.5% of 1,567,401 total volume.
How many KTOS short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did KTOS short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Kratos Defense & Security Solutions (KTOS) moved from 43.0% on Oct 30, 2026 to 41.5% on Nov 2, 2026, down 1.5 percentage points.
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