PLDT Inc ADR (PHI) short interest & short volume · 1.0% of float short
PLDT Inc ADR official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
PHI short interest rose 72.3% to 769K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (1.0% of float, 2.6 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 79.5% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 60.7% the 20 sessions before, the 98th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 769K
- prior 446K
- % of float
- 1.0%
- float 80.0M
- Days to cover
- 2.6
- avg vol 295K
- Change vs prior report
- +72.3%
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)
- 52.3%
- 30K of 58K
- 20-day average
- 79.5%
- prior 60.7%
- Percentile vs own history
- 98th
- 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: -11.6%
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 · PHI overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 30,275 | 57,919 | 52.3% |
| 2026-10-30 | 25,013 | 39,017 | 64.1% |
| 2026-10-29 | 47,824 | 64,261 | 74.4% |
| 2026-10-28 | 49,511 | 67,500 | 73.3% |
| 2026-10-27 | 75,898 | 87,459 | 86.8% |
| 2026-10-26 | 80,782 | 87,769 | 92.0% |
| 2026-10-23 | 62,835 | 72,757 | 86.4% |
| 2026-10-22 | 64,544 | 72,910 | 88.5% |
| 2026-10-21 | 92,828 | 102,543 | 90.5% |
| 2026-10-20 | 72,110 | 77,866 | 92.6% |
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PHI is rated 2.75 of 5 among 108 rated Communication Services stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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PHI short interest FAQ
What is PHI's short interest?
PLDT Inc ADR (PHI) had 769K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 1.0% of its 80.0M-share float.
How many days to cover does PHI have?
2.6 days: 769K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 295K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is PHI short interest rising or falling?
PHI short interest rose (+72.3%) from 446K to 769K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is PHI a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores PHI 23 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 1.3/40, days to cover 6.5/25, change in short interest vs prior report 15/15, 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 PHI daily volume is sold short?
79.5% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 98th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was PHI's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for PLDT Inc ADR (PHI) was 30,275 shares, 52.3% of 57,919 total volume.
How many PHI short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for PLDT Inc ADR (PHI), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did PHI short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for PLDT Inc ADR (PHI) moved from 64.1% on Oct 30, 2026 to 52.3% on Nov 2, 2026, down 11.8 percentage points.
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