Nextera Energy Inc (NEE) short interest & short volume · 3.0% of float short
Nextera Energy Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
NEE short interest rose 5.2% to 62.4M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (3.0% of float, 5.1 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 60.8% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 50.7% the 20 sessions before, the 92nd percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 62.4M
- prior 59.3M
- % of float
- 3.0%
- float 2.05B
- Days to cover
- 5.1
- avg vol 12.2M
- Change vs prior report
- +5.2%
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)
- 64.0%
- 3.6M of 5.6M
- 20-day average
- 60.8%
- prior 50.7%
- Percentile vs own history
- 92nd
- 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: +6.8%
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 · NEE overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 3,557,649 | 5,559,698 | 64.0% |
| 2026-10-30 | 4,973,332 | 7,752,699 | 64.2% |
| 2026-10-29 | 2,299,535 | 3,605,834 | 63.8% |
| 2026-10-28 | 1,824,775 | 3,202,062 | 57.0% |
| 2026-10-27 | 1,750,347 | 2,796,582 | 62.6% |
| 2026-10-26 | 2,246,473 | 3,226,438 | 69.6% |
| 2026-10-23 | 2,808,912 | 4,031,273 | 69.7% |
| 2026-10-22 | 4,284,672 | 6,905,269 | 62.0% |
| 2026-10-21 | 3,936,552 | 5,397,666 | 72.9% |
| 2026-10-20 | 2,859,740 | 5,311,809 | 53.8% |
Utilities peers with similar quant ratings
NEE is rated 3.29 of 5 among 78 rated Utilities stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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NEE short interest FAQ
What is NEE's short interest?
Nextera Energy Inc (NEE) had 62.4M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 3.0% of its 2.05B-share float.
How many days to cover does NEE have?
5.1 days: 62.4M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 12.2M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is NEE short interest rising or falling?
NEE short interest rose (+5.2%) from 59.3M to 62.4M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is NEE a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores NEE 24 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 4.1/40, days to cover 12.8/25, change in short interest vs prior report 1.6/15, price change since settlement date 5.4/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of NEE daily volume is sold short?
60.8% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 92nd percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was NEE's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Nextera Energy Inc (NEE) was 3,557,649 shares, 64.0% of 5,559,698 total volume.
How many NEE short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Nextera Energy Inc (NEE), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did NEE short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Nextera Energy Inc (NEE) moved from 64.2% on Oct 30, 2026 to 64.0% on Nov 2, 2026, down 0.2 percentage points.
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