Northwest Pipe Company (NWPX) short interest & short volume · 7.8% of float short
Northwest Pipe Company official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
NWPX short interest fell 2.1% to 727K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (7.8% of float, 6.7 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 54.7% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 58.3% the 20 sessions before, the 70th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 727K
- prior 742K
- % of float
- 7.8%
- float 9.3M
- Days to cover
- 6.7
- avg vol 109K
- Change vs prior report
- -2.1%
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)
- 50.3%
- 17K of 34K
- 20-day average
- 54.7%
- prior 58.3%
- Percentile vs own history
- 70th
- 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: -2.0%
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 · NWPX overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 17,134 | 34,037 | 50.3% |
| 2026-10-30 | 25,161 | 49,994 | 50.3% |
| 2026-10-29 | 78,365 | 117,701 | 66.6% |
| 2026-10-28 | 22,334 | 39,499 | 56.5% |
| 2026-10-27 | 24,031 | 38,644 | 62.2% |
| 2026-10-26 | 9,234 | 28,360 | 32.6% |
| 2026-10-23 | 18,944 | 33,708 | 56.2% |
| 2026-10-22 | 11,120 | 24,786 | 44.9% |
| 2026-10-21 | 28,626 | 38,906 | 73.6% |
| 2026-10-20 | 21,337 | 33,432 | 63.8% |
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NWPX is rated 4.52 of 5 among 146 rated Materials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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NWPX on Lician stock screens
NWPX is rated Strong Buy (4.52 of 5) and passes 4 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
NWPX short interest FAQ
What is NWPX's short interest?
Northwest Pipe Company (NWPX) had 727K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 7.8% of its 9.3M-share float.
How many days to cover does NWPX have?
6.7 days: 727K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 109K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is NWPX short interest rising or falling?
NWPX short interest fell (-2.1%) from 742K to 727K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is NWPX a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores NWPX 27 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 10.4/40, days to cover 16.7/25, 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 NWPX daily volume is sold short?
54.7% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 70th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was NWPX's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Northwest Pipe Company (NWPX) was 17,134 shares, 50.3% of 34,037 total volume.
How many NWPX short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Northwest Pipe Company (NWPX), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did NWPX short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Northwest Pipe Company (NWPX) was unchanged at 50.3% from Oct 30, 2026 to Nov 2, 2026.
Not investment advice. Figures as filed or reported, not a live feed.