Synchrony Financial (SYF) short interest & short volume · 16.4M shares short
Synchrony Financial official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
SYF short interest fell 5.8% to 16.4M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (5.5 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 66.2% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 74.9% the 20 sessions before, the 75th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 16.4M
- prior 17.5M
- % of float
- —
- no float on file
- Days to cover
- 5.5
- avg vol 3.0M
- Change vs prior report
- -5.8%
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.
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)
- 24.8%
- 586K of 2.4M
- 20-day average
- 66.2%
- prior 74.9%
- Percentile vs own history
- 75th
- 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: +1.5%
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 · SYF overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 585,764 | 2,359,174 | 24.8% |
| 2026-10-30 | 506,632 | 655,062 | 77.3% |
| 2026-10-29 | 679,315 | 938,740 | 72.4% |
| 2026-10-28 | 635,534 | 849,631 | 74.8% |
| 2026-10-27 | 668,356 | 810,036 | 82.5% |
| 2026-10-26 | 847,624 | 1,020,066 | 83.1% |
| 2026-10-23 | 894,620 | 1,559,974 | 57.4% |
| 2026-10-22 | 820,562 | 1,069,203 | 76.8% |
| 2026-10-21 | 1,256,914 | 1,467,726 | 85.6% |
| 2026-10-20 | 1,618,617 | 2,257,816 | 71.7% |
Financials peers with similar quant ratings
SYF is rated 3.35 of 5 among 516 rated Financials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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SYF short interest FAQ
What is SYF's short interest?
Synchrony Financial (SYF) had 16.4M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report.
How many days to cover does SYF have?
5.5 days: 16.4M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 3.0M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is SYF short interest rising or falling?
SYF short interest fell (-5.8%) from 17.5M to 16.4M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is SYF a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores SYF 15 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: days to cover 13.7/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 1.2/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of SYF daily volume is sold short?
66.2% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 75th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was SYF's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Synchrony Financial (SYF) was 585,764 shares, 24.8% of 2,359,174 total volume.
How many SYF short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Synchrony Financial (SYF), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did SYF short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Synchrony Financial (SYF) moved from 77.3% on Oct 30, 2026 to 24.8% on Nov 2, 2026, down 52.5 percentage points.
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