Insight Enterprises Inc (NSIT) short interest & short volume · 2.9% of float short
Insight Enterprises Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
NSIT short interest rose 21.5% to 815K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (2.9% of float, 2.6 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 49.6% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 47.8% the 20 sessions before, the 76th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 815K
- prior 671K
- % of float
- 2.9%
- float 28.5M
- Days to cover
- 2.6
- avg vol 316K
- Change vs prior report
- +21.5%
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)
- 55.0%
- 196K of 357K
- 20-day average
- 49.6%
- prior 47.8%
- Percentile vs own history
- 76th
- 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: +5.3%
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 · NSIT overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 196,258 | 356,623 | 55.0% |
| 2026-10-30 | 109,114 | 203,120 | 53.7% |
| 2026-10-29 | 57,109 | 84,201 | 67.8% |
| 2026-10-28 | 55,119 | 127,442 | 43.3% |
| 2026-10-27 | 40,698 | 77,343 | 52.6% |
| 2026-10-26 | 86,794 | 218,101 | 39.8% |
| 2026-10-23 | 66,631 | 143,367 | 46.5% |
| 2026-10-22 | 40,019 | 95,997 | 41.7% |
| 2026-10-21 | 64,230 | 105,589 | 60.8% |
| 2026-10-20 | 32,038 | 84,833 | 37.8% |
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NSIT on Lician stock screens
NSIT is rated Buy (4.49 of 5) and passes 3 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
NSIT short interest FAQ
What is NSIT's short interest?
Insight Enterprises Inc (NSIT) had 815K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 2.9% of its 28.5M-share float.
How many days to cover does NSIT have?
2.6 days: 815K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 316K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is NSIT short interest rising or falling?
NSIT short interest rose (+21.5%) from 671K to 815K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is NSIT a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores NSIT 21 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 3.8/40, days to cover 6.5/25, change in short interest vs prior report 6.5/15, price change since settlement date 4.2/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of NSIT daily volume is sold short?
49.6% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 76th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was NSIT's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Insight Enterprises Inc (NSIT) was 196,258 shares, 55.0% of 356,623 total volume.
How many NSIT short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Insight Enterprises Inc (NSIT), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did NSIT short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Insight Enterprises Inc (NSIT) moved from 53.7% on Oct 30, 2026 to 55.0% on Nov 2, 2026, up 1.3 percentage points.
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