Progress Software Corporation (PRGS) short interest & short volume · 11.3% of float short
Progress Software Corporation official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
PRGS short interest was little changed at 4.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (11.3% of float, 6.3 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 68.1% of volume over the last 20 sessions, the 93rd percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 4.7M
- prior 4.7M
- % of float
- 11.3%
- float 41.6M
- Days to cover
- 6.3
- avg vol 750K
- Change vs prior report
- -0.2%
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.
% 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)
- 80.1%
- 90K of 112K
- 20-day average
- 68.1%
- prior 68.2%
- Percentile vs own history
- 93rd
- 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: +8.0%
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 · PRGS overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 89,545 | 111,784 | 80.1% |
| 2026-10-30 | 65,910 | 112,433 | 58.6% |
| 2026-10-29 | 90,828 | 121,443 | 74.8% |
| 2026-10-28 | 69,645 | 106,291 | 65.5% |
| 2026-10-27 | 112,696 | 133,844 | 84.2% |
| 2026-10-26 | 98,991 | 142,026 | 69.7% |
| 2026-10-23 | 99,435 | 124,589 | 79.8% |
| 2026-10-22 | 119,553 | 181,615 | 65.8% |
| 2026-10-21 | 119,805 | 160,337 | 74.7% |
| 2026-10-20 | 130,695 | 187,927 | 69.5% |
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PRGS is rated 4.93 of 5 among 462 rated Technology stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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PRGS short interest FAQ
What is PRGS's short interest?
Progress Software Corporation (PRGS) had 4.7M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 11.3% of its 41.6M-share float.
How many days to cover does PRGS have?
6.3 days: 4.7M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 750K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is PRGS short interest rising or falling?
PRGS short interest was little changed (-0.2%) from 4.7M to 4.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is PRGS a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores PRGS 37 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 15.1/40, days to cover 15.7/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 6.4/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of PRGS daily volume is sold short?
68.1% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 93rd percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was PRGS's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Progress Software Corporation (PRGS) was 89,545 shares, 80.1% of 111,784 total volume.
How many PRGS short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Progress Software Corporation (PRGS), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did PRGS short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Progress Software Corporation (PRGS) moved from 58.6% on Oct 30, 2026 to 80.1% on Nov 2, 2026, up 21.5 percentage points.
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