McCormick & Company Incorporated (MKC) short interest & short volume · 7.2% of float short
McCormick & Company Incorporated official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
MKC short interest fell 3.5% to 19.2M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (7.2% of float, 3.9 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 50.1% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 66.8% the 20 sessions before, the 35th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 19.2M
- prior 19.9M
- % of float
- 7.2%
- float 265.4M
- Days to cover
- 3.9
- avg vol 4.9M
- Change vs prior report
- -3.5%
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)
- 35.7%
- 499K of 1.4M
- 20-day average
- 50.1%
- prior 66.8%
- Percentile vs own history
- 35th
- 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: +4.7%
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 · MKC overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 498,582 | 1,396,509 | 35.7% |
| 2026-10-30 | 485,500 | 1,146,842 | 42.3% |
| 2026-10-29 | 496,059 | 959,986 | 51.7% |
| 2026-10-28 | 627,772 | 1,607,839 | 39.0% |
| 2026-10-27 | 401,319 | 714,138 | 56.2% |
| 2026-10-26 | 698,299 | 1,182,320 | 59.1% |
| 2026-10-23 | 606,896 | 1,214,561 | 50.0% |
| 2026-10-22 | 667,834 | 1,965,534 | 34.0% |
| 2026-10-21 | 975,698 | 1,654,281 | 59.0% |
| 2026-10-20 | 882,429 | 1,295,562 | 68.1% |
Consumer Staples peers with similar quant ratings
MKC is rated 4.60 of 5 among 117 rated Consumer Staples stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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MKC short interest FAQ
What is MKC's short interest?
McCormick & Company Incorporated (MKC) had 19.2M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 7.2% of its 265.4M-share float.
How many days to cover does MKC have?
3.9 days: 19.2M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 4.9M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is MKC short interest rising or falling?
MKC short interest fell (-3.5%) from 19.9M to 19.2M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is MKC a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores MKC 23 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 9.6/40, days to cover 9.8/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 3.8/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of MKC daily volume is sold short?
50.1% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 35th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was MKC's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for McCormick & Company Incorporated (MKC) was 498,582 shares, 35.7% of 1,396,509 total volume.
How many MKC short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for McCormick & Company Incorporated (MKC), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did MKC short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for McCormick & Company Incorporated (MKC) moved from 42.3% on Oct 30, 2026 to 35.7% on Nov 2, 2026, down 6.6 percentage points.
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