Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) short interest & short volume · 1.6% of float short
Reinsurance Group of America official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
RGA short interest rose 9.8% to 1.0M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (1.6% of float, 2.0 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 61.8% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 66.6% the 20 sessions before, the 72nd percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 1.0M
- prior 948K
- % of float
- 1.6%
- float 65.7M
- Days to cover
- 2.0
- avg vol 511K
- Change vs prior report
- +9.8%
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)
- 46.5%
- 115K of 247K
- 20-day average
- 61.8%
- prior 66.6%
- Percentile vs own history
- 72nd
- 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: +0.2%
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 · RGA overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 115,138 | 247,402 | 46.5% |
| 2026-10-30 | 54,137 | 133,835 | 40.5% |
| 2026-10-29 | 76,159 | 116,318 | 65.5% |
| 2026-10-28 | 71,850 | 137,272 | 52.3% |
| 2026-10-27 | 97,160 | 157,266 | 61.8% |
| 2026-10-26 | 113,946 | 165,205 | 69.0% |
| 2026-10-23 | 108,454 | 138,186 | 78.5% |
| 2026-10-22 | 64,013 | 109,159 | 58.6% |
| 2026-10-21 | 61,157 | 93,610 | 65.3% |
| 2026-10-20 | 86,216 | 134,302 | 64.2% |
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RGA is rated 4.57 of 5 among 516 rated Financials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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RGA on Lician stock screens
RGA is rated Strong Buy (4.57 of 5) and passes 3 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
RGA short interest FAQ
What is RGA's short interest?
Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) had 1.0M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 1.6% of its 65.7M-share float.
How many days to cover does RGA have?
2.0 days: 1.0M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 511K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is RGA short interest rising or falling?
RGA short interest rose (+9.8%) from 948K to 1.0M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is RGA a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores RGA 10 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 2.1/40, days to cover 5.1/25, change in short interest vs prior report 2.9/15, price change since settlement date 0.2/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of RGA daily volume is sold short?
61.8% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 72nd percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was RGA's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) was 115,138 shares, 46.5% of 247,402 total volume.
How many RGA short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did RGA short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) moved from 40.5% on Oct 30, 2026 to 46.5% on Nov 2, 2026, up 6.0 percentage points.
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