Selective Insurance Group Inc (SIGI) short interest & short volume · 3.5% of float short
Selective Insurance Group Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
SIGI short interest rose 12.2% to 2.1M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (3.5% of float, 4.6 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 59.3% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 64.0% the 20 sessions before, the 55th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 2.1M
- prior 1.9M
- % of float
- 3.5%
- float 60.2M
- Days to cover
- 4.6
- avg vol 451K
- Change vs prior report
- +12.2%
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)
- 64.1%
- 118K of 184K
- 20-day average
- 59.3%
- prior 64.0%
- Percentile vs own history
- 55th
- 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: +15.2%
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 · SIGI overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 117,768 | 183,604 | 64.1% |
| 2026-10-30 | 74,023 | 119,358 | 62.0% |
| 2026-10-29 | 101,113 | 154,316 | 65.5% |
| 2026-10-28 | 144,469 | 254,075 | 56.9% |
| 2026-10-27 | 153,499 | 259,400 | 59.2% |
| 2026-10-26 | 146,270 | 260,714 | 56.1% |
| 2026-10-23 | 318,522 | 584,010 | 54.5% |
| 2026-10-22 | 84,040 | 238,305 | 35.3% |
| 2026-10-21 | 134,684 | 209,400 | 64.3% |
| 2026-10-20 | 45,516 | 136,208 | 33.4% |
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SIGI is rated 4.36 of 5 among 516 rated Financials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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SIGI on Lician stock screens
SIGI is rated Buy (4.36 of 5) and passes 1 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
SIGI short interest FAQ
What is SIGI's short interest?
Selective Insurance Group Inc (SIGI) had 2.1M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 3.5% of its 60.2M-share float.
How many days to cover does SIGI have?
4.6 days: 2.1M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 451K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is SIGI short interest rising or falling?
SIGI short interest rose (+12.2%) from 1.9M to 2.1M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is SIGI a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores SIGI 32 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 4.6/40, days to cover 11.6/25, change in short interest vs prior report 3.7/15, price change since settlement date 12.2/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of SIGI daily volume is sold short?
59.3% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 55th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was SIGI's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Selective Insurance Group Inc (SIGI) was 117,768 shares, 64.1% of 183,604 total volume.
How many SIGI short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Selective Insurance Group Inc (SIGI), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did SIGI short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Selective Insurance Group Inc (SIGI) moved from 62.0% on Oct 30, 2026 to 64.1% on Nov 2, 2026, up 2.1 percentage points.
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