PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd (PFLT) short interest & short volume · 4.1M shares short
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
PFLT short interest rose 9.5% to 4.1M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (4.5 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 54.9% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 59.5% 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
- 4.1M
- prior 3.7M
- % of float
- —
- no float on file
- Days to cover
- 4.5
- avg vol 908K
- Change vs prior report
- +9.5%
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.
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)
- 52.5%
- 203K of 386K
- 20-day average
- 54.9%
- prior 59.5%
- 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: +2.1%
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 · PFLT overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 202,982 | 386,464 | 52.5% |
| 2026-10-30 | 311,380 | 469,588 | 66.3% |
| 2026-10-29 | 174,864 | 311,970 | 56.0% |
| 2026-10-28 | 81,041 | 215,573 | 37.6% |
| 2026-10-27 | 368,234 | 586,030 | 62.8% |
| 2026-10-26 | 112,676 | 307,139 | 36.7% |
| 2026-10-23 | 167,226 | 329,846 | 50.7% |
| 2026-10-22 | 132,579 | 294,162 | 45.1% |
| 2026-10-21 | 251,129 | 472,339 | 53.2% |
| 2026-10-20 | 280,432 | 490,703 | 57.1% |
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PFLT is rated 2.19 of 5 among 516 rated Financials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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PFLT short interest FAQ
What is PFLT's short interest?
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd (PFLT) had 4.1M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report.
How many days to cover does PFLT have?
4.5 days: 4.1M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 908K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is PFLT short interest rising or falling?
PFLT short interest rose (+9.5%) from 3.7M to 4.1M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is PFLT a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores PFLT 16 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: days to cover 11.2/25, change in short interest vs prior report 2.8/15, price change since settlement date 1.7/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of PFLT daily volume is sold short?
54.9% 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 PFLT's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd (PFLT) was 202,982 shares, 52.5% of 386,464 total volume.
How many PFLT short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd (PFLT), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did PFLT short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd (PFLT) moved from 66.3% on Oct 30, 2026 to 52.5% on Nov 2, 2026, down 13.8 percentage points.
Not investment advice. Figures as filed or reported, not a live feed.