Nio Inc Class A ADR (NIO) short interest & short volume · 8.5% of float short
Nio Inc Class A ADR official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
NIO short interest fell 6.2% to 123.1M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (8.5% of float, 3.8 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 50.2% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 46.3% the 20 sessions before, the 97th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 24, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 123.1M
- prior 131.1M
- % of float
- 8.5%
- float 1.44B
- Days to cover
- 3.8
- avg vol 32.2M
- Change vs prior report
- -6.2%
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)
- 34.5%
- 5.8M of 16.7M
- 20-day average
- 50.2%
- prior 46.3%
- Percentile vs own history
- 97th
- 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: -8.9%
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 · NIO overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 5,753,375 | 16,698,621 | 34.5% |
| 2026-10-30 | 9,505,141 | 17,538,191 | 54.2% |
| 2026-10-29 | 6,003,529 | 14,662,060 | 41.0% |
| 2026-10-28 | 3,992,431 | 9,313,601 | 42.9% |
| 2026-10-27 | 4,454,416 | 8,246,004 | 54.0% |
| 2026-10-26 | 4,852,051 | 9,706,507 | 50.0% |
| 2026-10-23 | 4,981,625 | 10,015,218 | 49.7% |
| 2026-10-22 | 5,378,612 | 13,119,328 | 41.0% |
| 2026-10-21 | 10,340,185 | 15,581,612 | 66.4% |
| 2026-10-20 | 6,307,929 | 13,413,882 | 47.0% |
Consumer Discretionary peers with similar quant ratings
NIO is rated 1.27 of 5 among 333 rated Consumer Discretionary stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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NIO short interest FAQ
What is NIO's short interest?
Nio Inc Class A ADR (NIO) had 123.1M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 8.5% of its 1.44B-share float.
How many days to cover does NIO have?
3.8 days: 123.1M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 32.2M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is NIO short interest rising or falling?
NIO short interest fell (-6.2%) from 131.1M to 123.1M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is NIO a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores NIO 21 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 11.4/40, days to cover 9.6/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 0/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of NIO daily volume is sold short?
50.2% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 97th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was NIO's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Nio Inc Class A ADR (NIO) was 5,753,375 shares, 34.5% of 16,698,621 total volume.
How many NIO short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Nio Inc Class A ADR (NIO), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did NIO short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Nio Inc Class A ADR (NIO) moved from 54.2% on Oct 30, 2026 to 34.5% on Nov 2, 2026, down 19.7 percentage points.
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