MSCI Inc (MSCI) short interest & short volume · 2.1% of float short
MSCI Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
MSCI short interest fell 24.6% to 1.5M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (2.1% of float, 3.0 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 39.4% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 48.2% the 20 sessions before, the 6th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 1.5M
- prior 1.9M
- % of float
- 2.1%
- float 68.9M
- Days to cover
- 3.0
- avg vol 490K
- Change vs prior report
- -24.6%
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.
% 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)
- 50.8%
- 97K of 192K
- 20-day average
- 39.4%
- prior 48.2%
- Percentile vs own history
- 6th
- 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: +11.2%
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 · MSCI overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 97,413 | 191,962 | 50.8% |
| 2026-10-30 | 69,602 | 149,877 | 46.4% |
| 2026-10-29 | 73,860 | 162,825 | 45.4% |
| 2026-10-28 | 73,070 | 148,250 | 49.3% |
| 2026-10-27 | 97,372 | 180,313 | 54.0% |
| 2026-10-26 | 88,119 | 185,374 | 47.5% |
| 2026-10-23 | 106,656 | 230,160 | 46.3% |
| 2026-10-22 | 104,008 | 275,291 | 37.8% |
| 2026-10-21 | 173,884 | 316,933 | 54.9% |
| 2026-10-20 | 259,343 | 557,340 | 46.5% |
Financials peers with similar quant ratings
MSCI is rated 4.27 of 5 among 516 rated Financials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
- FRAF short interest4.30 · Buy · stock
- NECB short interest4.29 · Buy · stock
- BWB short interest4.28 · Buy
- BNS short interest4.27 · Buy
- BOW short interest4.26 · Buy · stock
- CARE short interest4.25 · Buy · stock
- CBNK short interest4.24 · Buy · stock
- EZPW short interest4.24 · Buy · stock
MSCI on Lician stock screens
MSCI is rated Buy (4.27 of 5) and passes 2 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
MSCI short interest FAQ
What is MSCI's short interest?
MSCI Inc (MSCI) had 1.5M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 2.1% of its 68.9M-share float.
How many days to cover does MSCI have?
3.0 days: 1.5M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 490K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is MSCI short interest rising or falling?
MSCI short interest fell (-24.6%) from 1.9M to 1.5M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is MSCI a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores MSCI 19 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 2.8/40, days to cover 7.5/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 9/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of MSCI daily volume is sold short?
39.4% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 6th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was MSCI's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for MSCI Inc (MSCI) was 97,413 shares, 50.8% of 191,962 total volume.
How many MSCI short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for MSCI Inc (MSCI), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did MSCI short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for MSCI Inc (MSCI) moved from 46.4% on Oct 30, 2026 to 50.8% on Nov 2, 2026, up 4.4 percentage points.
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