Sherwin-Williams Co (SHW) short interest & short volume · 2.9% of float short
Sherwin-Williams Co official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
SHW short interest fell 4.6% to 6.6M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (2.9% of float, 4.6 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 40.8% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 44.5% the 20 sessions before, the 14th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 6.6M
- prior 6.9M
- % of float
- 2.9%
- float 228.6M
- Days to cover
- 4.6
- avg vol 1.4M
- Change vs prior report
- -4.6%
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)
- 55.1%
- 575K of 1.0M
- 20-day average
- 40.8%
- prior 44.5%
- Percentile vs own history
- 14th
- 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: +1.2%
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 · SHW overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 575,028 | 1,044,170 | 55.1% |
| 2026-10-30 | 317,794 | 754,902 | 42.1% |
| 2026-10-29 | 439,829 | 1,208,361 | 36.4% |
| 2026-10-28 | 440,389 | 1,096,327 | 40.2% |
| 2026-10-27 | 501,754 | 1,148,516 | 43.7% |
| 2026-10-26 | 199,002 | 640,988 | 31.1% |
| 2026-10-23 | 153,526 | 514,353 | 29.9% |
| 2026-10-22 | 198,130 | 569,475 | 34.8% |
| 2026-10-21 | 186,093 | 404,120 | 46.0% |
| 2026-10-20 | 258,937 | 584,724 | 44.3% |
Materials peers with similar quant ratings
SHW is rated 3.56 of 5 among 146 rated Materials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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- KRO short interest3.48 · Hold · stock
- CRH short interest3.45 · Hold · stock
SHW on Lician stock screens
SHW is rated Buy (3.56 of 5) and passes 1 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
SHW short interest FAQ
What is SHW's short interest?
Sherwin-Williams Co (SHW) had 6.6M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 2.9% of its 228.6M-share float.
How many days to cover does SHW have?
4.6 days: 6.6M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 1.4M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is SHW short interest rising or falling?
SHW short interest fell (-4.6%) from 6.9M to 6.6M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is SHW a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores SHW 16 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 3.9/40, days to cover 11.5/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 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 SHW daily volume is sold short?
40.8% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 14th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was SHW's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Sherwin-Williams Co (SHW) was 575,028 shares, 55.1% of 1,044,170 total volume.
How many SHW short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Sherwin-Williams Co (SHW), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did SHW short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Sherwin-Williams Co (SHW) moved from 42.1% on Oct 30, 2026 to 55.1% on Nov 2, 2026, up 13.0 percentage points.
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