Oil-Dri Corporation Of America (ODC) short interest & short volume · 7.9% of float short
Oil-Dri Corporation Of America official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
ODC short interest rose 7.3% to 771K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (7.9% of float, 5.0 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 49.5% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 46.4% the 20 sessions before, the 24th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 771K
- prior 719K
- % of float
- 7.9%
- float 9.8M
- Days to cover
- 5.0
- avg vol 156K
- Change vs prior report
- +7.3%
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)
- 44.7%
- 15K of 34K
- 20-day average
- 49.5%
- prior 46.4%
- Percentile vs own history
- 24th
- 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: -14.4%
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 · ODC overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 15,070 | 33,699 | 44.7% |
| 2026-10-30 | 18,077 | 33,010 | 54.8% |
| 2026-10-29 | 9,095 | 18,901 | 48.1% |
| 2026-10-28 | 9,392 | 25,630 | 36.6% |
| 2026-10-27 | 69,573 | 93,337 | 74.5% |
| 2026-10-26 | 23,938 | 35,614 | 67.2% |
| 2026-10-23 | 11,872 | 22,360 | 53.1% |
| 2026-10-22 | 14,158 | 26,988 | 52.5% |
| 2026-10-21 | 10,170 | 23,652 | 43.0% |
| 2026-10-20 | 24,216 | 57,677 | 42.0% |
Materials peers with similar quant ratings
ODC is rated 3.29 of 5 among 146 rated Materials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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ODC short interest FAQ
What is ODC's short interest?
Oil-Dri Corporation Of America (ODC) had 771K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 7.9% of its 9.8M-share float.
How many days to cover does ODC have?
5.0 days: 771K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 156K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is ODC short interest rising or falling?
ODC short interest rose (+7.3%) from 719K to 771K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is ODC a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores ODC 25 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 10.5/40, days to cover 12.4/25, change in short interest vs prior report 2.2/15, 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 ODC daily volume is sold short?
49.5% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 24th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was ODC's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Oil-Dri Corporation Of America (ODC) was 15,070 shares, 44.7% of 33,699 total volume.
How many ODC short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Oil-Dri Corporation Of America (ODC), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did ODC short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Oil-Dri Corporation Of America (ODC) moved from 54.8% on Oct 30, 2026 to 44.7% on Nov 2, 2026, down 10.1 percentage points.
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