Relx PLC ADR (RELX) short interest & short volume · 0.3% of float short
Relx PLC ADR official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
RELX short interest fell 25.2% to 4.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (0.3% of float, 2.0 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 42.5% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 44.7% the 20 sessions before, the 23rd 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 6.2M
- % of float
- 0.3%
- float 1.84B
- Days to cover
- 2.0
- avg vol 2.3M
- Change vs prior report
- -25.2%
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)
- 39.5%
- 195K of 494K
- 20-day average
- 42.5%
- prior 44.7%
- Percentile vs own history
- 23rd
- 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: +2.6%
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 · RELX overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 195,279 | 494,458 | 39.5% |
| 2026-10-30 | 215,527 | 636,143 | 33.9% |
| 2026-10-29 | 160,614 | 509,384 | 31.5% |
| 2026-10-28 | 268,856 | 671,680 | 40.0% |
| 2026-10-27 | 166,730 | 479,381 | 34.8% |
| 2026-10-26 | 183,370 | 525,203 | 34.9% |
| 2026-10-23 | 137,346 | 972,341 | 14.1% |
| 2026-10-22 | 233,954 | 1,132,145 | 20.7% |
| 2026-10-21 | 370,658 | 1,124,958 | 33.0% |
| 2026-10-20 | 281,184 | 406,286 | 69.2% |
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RELX is rated 4.21 of 5 among 418 rated Industrials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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RELX on Lician stock screens
RELX is rated Buy (4.21 of 5) and passes 1 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
RELX short interest FAQ
What is RELX's short interest?
Relx PLC ADR (RELX) had 4.7M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 0.3% of its 1.84B-share float.
How many days to cover does RELX have?
2.0 days: 4.7M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 2.3M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is RELX short interest rising or falling?
RELX short interest fell (-25.2%) from 6.2M to 4.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is RELX a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores RELX 8 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 0.3/40, days to cover 5.1/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 2.1/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of RELX daily volume is sold short?
42.5% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 23rd percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was RELX's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Relx PLC ADR (RELX) was 195,279 shares, 39.5% of 494,458 total volume.
How many RELX short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Relx PLC ADR (RELX), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did RELX short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Relx PLC ADR (RELX) moved from 33.9% on Oct 30, 2026 to 39.5% on Nov 2, 2026, up 5.6 percentage points.
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