PBR.A (PBR.A) short interest & short volume · 18.0M shares short
PBR.A official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
PBR.A short interest fell 26.2% to 18.0M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (1.5 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 42.8% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 50.4% the 20 sessions before, the 39th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 18.0M
- prior 24.3M
- % of float
- —
- no float on file
- Days to cover
- 1.5
- avg vol 11.9M
- Change vs prior report
- -26.2%
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.
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)
- 21.3%
- 251K of 1.2M
- 20-day average
- 42.8%
- prior 50.4%
- Percentile vs own history
- 39th
- 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: -18.6%
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 · PBR.A overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 251,059 | 1,177,796 | 21.3% |
| 2026-10-30 | 788,741 | 1,766,194 | 44.7% |
| 2026-10-29 | 946,995 | 2,818,225 | 33.6% |
| 2026-10-28 | 1,053,923 | 2,454,931 | 42.9% |
| 2026-10-27 | 538,129 | 2,928,920 | 18.4% |
| 2026-10-26 | 2,081,569 | 8,893,146 | 23.4% |
| 2026-10-23 | 2,750,250 | 4,877,961 | 56.4% |
| 2026-10-22 | 1,202,508 | 1,983,749 | 60.6% |
| 2026-10-21 | 897,587 | 1,754,200 | 51.2% |
| 2026-10-20 | 987,206 | 2,671,136 | 37.0% |
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PBR.A is rated 4.67 of 5 among 153 rated Energy stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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PBR.A on Lician stock screens
PBR.A is rated Strong Buy (4.67 of 5) and passes 2 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
PBR.A short interest FAQ
What is PBR.A's short interest?
PBR.A had 18.0M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report.
How many days to cover does PBR.A have?
1.5 days: 18.0M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 11.9M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is PBR.A short interest rising or falling?
PBR.A short interest fell (-26.2%) from 24.3M to 18.0M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is PBR.A a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores PBR.A 4 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: days to cover 3.8/25, 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 PBR.A daily volume is sold short?
42.8% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 39th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was PBR.A's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for PBR.A was 251,059 shares, 21.3% of 1,177,796 total volume.
How many PBR.A short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for PBR.A, from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did PBR.A short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for PBR.A moved from 44.7% on Oct 30, 2026 to 21.3% on Nov 2, 2026, down 23.4 percentage points.
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