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SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond (SPHY) short interest & short volume · 17.6M shares short

SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.

What changed

SPHY short interest fell 29.9% to 17.6M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (2.5 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 55.7% of volume over the last 20 sessions, the 23rd percentile of its own 20-day averages since Oct 6, 2025.

Short interest

Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026

Shares short
17.6M
prior 25.1M
% of float
—
no float on file
Days to cover
2.5
avg vol 7.1M
Change vs prior report
-29.9%

6 reports

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SPHY short interest by FINRA report (last 6) · price is the close on the report date
Report dateShares short$ value shortChange% floatDays to coverPrice
Oct 15, 202617.6M$397.1M-29.9%—2.5$22.53
Sep 30, 202625.1M$567.7M+56.1%—3.7$22.59
Sep 15, 202616.1M$369.0M-0.0%—3.1$22.92
Aug 31, 202616.1M$376.0M+5.7%—4.9$23.35
Aug 14, 202615.2M$355.1M-31.9%—2.5$23.31
Jul 31, 202622.4M$521.0M+105.2%—2.3$23.27

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.

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 11)
38.2%
524K of 1.4M
20-day average
55.7%
prior 56.1%
Percentile vs own history
23rd
233 periods since 2025

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Short volumeRest of the day's volume

Source: FINRA Reg SHO daily short sale volume · Latest Nov 11, 2026

Short squeeze score (model)

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 · SPHY overview

Last 10 sessions · daily short volume · FINRA Reg SHO
DateShortTotalShort % of volume
2026-11-11524,1691,371,11338.2%
2026-11-101,599,3592,710,13659.0%
2026-11-092,948,8184,555,82764.7%
2026-11-061,352,7323,007,14445.0%
2026-11-054,366,6766,024,11672.5%
2026-11-04909,5902,520,03636.1%
2026-11-03674,1992,132,19831.6%
2026-11-023,342,7605,711,65558.5%
2026-10-301,293,6503,251,18639.8%
2026-10-29993,9264,595,06621.6%

SPHY short interest FAQ

What is SPHY's short interest?

SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond (SPHY) had 17.6M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report.

How many days to cover does SPHY have?

2.5 days: 17.6M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 7.1M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.

Is SPHY short interest rising or falling?

SPHY short interest fell (-29.9%) from 25.1M to 17.6M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.

Is SPHY a short squeeze candidate?

Lician's squeeze watch scores SPHY 6 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: days to cover 6.2/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.

What share of SPHY daily volume is sold short?

55.7% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 11, 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 SPHY's latest FINRA short volume?

On Nov 11, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond (SPHY) was 524,169 shares, 38.2% of 1,371,113 total volume.

How many SPHY short-volume sessions are listed on this page?

This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond (SPHY), from Oct 29, 2026 through Nov 11, 2026.

How did SPHY short volume percent change from the prior cached session?

Cached FINRA short volume for SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond (SPHY) moved from 59.0% on Nov 10, 2026 to 38.2% on Nov 11, 2026, down 20.8 percentage points.

Not investment advice. Figures as filed or reported, not a live feed.