Primerica Inc (PRI) short interest & short volume · 4.1% of float short
Primerica Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
PRI short interest fell 2.5% to 1.4M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (4.1% of float, 7.7 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 55.9% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 57.6% the 20 sessions before, the 56th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 1.4M
- prior 1.4M
- % of float
- 4.1%
- float 32.7M
- Days to cover
- 7.7
- avg vol 176K
- Change vs prior report
- -2.5%
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.
% 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)
- 58.4%
- 38K of 65K
- 20-day average
- 55.9%
- prior 57.6%
- Percentile vs own history
- 56th
- 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: -0.3%
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 · PRI overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 37,877 | 64,857 | 58.4% |
| 2026-10-30 | 27,545 | 48,582 | 56.7% |
| 2026-10-29 | 33,097 | 63,747 | 51.9% |
| 2026-10-28 | 49,861 | 75,649 | 65.9% |
| 2026-10-27 | 45,385 | 81,189 | 55.9% |
| 2026-10-26 | 40,491 | 67,142 | 60.3% |
| 2026-10-23 | 40,800 | 62,415 | 65.4% |
| 2026-10-22 | 56,277 | 82,690 | 68.1% |
| 2026-10-21 | 25,731 | 43,657 | 58.9% |
| 2026-10-20 | 26,055 | 47,751 | 54.6% |
Financials peers with similar quant ratings
PRI is rated 3.51 of 5 among 516 rated Financials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
- ARCC short interest3.54 · Buy · stock
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- OBDC short interest3.50 · Buy · stock
- MS short interest3.49 · Hold · stock
- MC short interest3.48 · Hold · stock
- NEWT short interest3.47 · Hold
PRI on Lician stock screens
PRI is rated Buy (3.51 of 5) and passes 2 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
PRI short interest FAQ
What is PRI's short interest?
Primerica Inc (PRI) had 1.4M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 4.1% of its 32.7M-share float.
How many days to cover does PRI have?
7.7 days: 1.4M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 176K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is PRI short interest rising or falling?
PRI short interest fell (-2.5%) from 1.4M to 1.4M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is PRI a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores PRI 25 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 5.5/40, days to cover 19.2/25, 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 PRI daily volume is sold short?
55.9% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 56th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was PRI's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Primerica Inc (PRI) was 37,877 shares, 58.4% of 64,857 total volume.
How many PRI short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Primerica Inc (PRI), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did PRI short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Primerica Inc (PRI) moved from 56.7% on Oct 30, 2026 to 58.4% on Nov 2, 2026, up 1.7 percentage points.
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