Spire Inc (SR) short interest & short volume · 4.7% of float short
Spire Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
SR short interest fell 9.4% to 2.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (4.7% of float, 6.4 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 60.8% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 62.0% the 20 sessions before, the 28th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 2.7M
- prior 3.0M
- % of float
- 4.7%
- float 57.6M
- Days to cover
- 6.4
- avg vol 424K
- Change vs prior report
- -9.4%
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)
- 68.8%
- 129K of 188K
- 20-day average
- 60.8%
- prior 62.0%
- Percentile vs own history
- 28th
- 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: +9.0%
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 · SR overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 129,162 | 187,832 | 68.8% |
| 2026-10-30 | 163,684 | 262,299 | 62.4% |
| 2026-10-29 | 201,276 | 326,037 | 61.7% |
| 2026-10-28 | 99,591 | 165,511 | 60.2% |
| 2026-10-27 | 259,573 | 353,117 | 73.5% |
| 2026-10-26 | 105,563 | 179,746 | 58.7% |
| 2026-10-23 | 80,894 | 116,712 | 69.3% |
| 2026-10-22 | 127,145 | 261,442 | 48.6% |
| 2026-10-21 | 98,348 | 186,255 | 52.8% |
| 2026-10-20 | 114,202 | 212,535 | 53.7% |
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SR on Lician stock screens
SR is rated Strong Buy (4.82 of 5) and passes 4 of 9 preset screens on the Nov 4, 2026 quant run. Build your own screen
SR short interest FAQ
What is SR's short interest?
Spire Inc (SR) had 2.7M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 4.7% of its 57.6M-share float.
How many days to cover does SR have?
6.4 days: 2.7M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 424K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is SR short interest rising or falling?
SR short interest fell (-9.4%) from 3.0M to 2.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is SR a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores SR 30 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 6.3/40, days to cover 16/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 7.2/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of SR daily volume is sold short?
60.8% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 28th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was SR's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Spire Inc (SR) was 129,162 shares, 68.8% of 187,832 total volume.
How many SR short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Spire Inc (SR), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did SR short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Spire Inc (SR) moved from 62.4% on Oct 30, 2026 to 68.8% on Nov 2, 2026, up 6.4 percentage points.
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