Taboola (TBLA) short interest & short volume · 8.9% of float short
Taboola official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
TBLA short interest rose 6.4% to 8.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (8.9% of float, 4.4 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 50.8% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 58.9% the 20 sessions before, the 78th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 8.7M
- prior 8.2M
- % of float
- 8.9%
- float 97.3M
- Days to cover
- 4.4
- avg vol 2.0M
- Change vs prior report
- +6.4%
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)
- 62.6%
- 385K of 615K
- 20-day average
- 50.8%
- prior 58.9%
- Percentile vs own history
- 78th
- 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: -4.0%
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 · TBLA overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 385,368 | 615,377 | 62.6% |
| 2026-10-30 | 352,741 | 695,598 | 50.7% |
| 2026-10-29 | 263,678 | 442,467 | 59.6% |
| 2026-10-28 | 283,815 | 427,988 | 66.3% |
| 2026-10-27 | 185,243 | 330,667 | 56.0% |
| 2026-10-26 | 147,470 | 287,006 | 51.4% |
| 2026-10-23 | 137,941 | 302,627 | 45.6% |
| 2026-10-22 | 207,292 | 384,002 | 54.0% |
| 2026-10-21 | 276,698 | 447,822 | 61.8% |
| 2026-10-20 | 152,805 | 454,119 | 33.6% |
Communication Services peers with similar quant ratings
TBLA among 108 rated Communication Services stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
- BZ short interest4.98 · Strong Buy
- QNST short interest4.94 · Strong Buy · stock
- NRDS short interest4.91 · Strong Buy · stock
- SPOT short interest4.87 · Strong Buy
- MAX short interest4.83 · Strong Buy · stock
- MSGE short interest4.79 · Strong Buy · stock
- EVER short interest4.75 · Strong Buy · stock
- FOXA short interest4.74 · Strong Buy · stock
TBLA short interest FAQ
What is TBLA's short interest?
Taboola (TBLA) had 8.7M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 8.9% of its 97.3M-share float.
How many days to cover does TBLA have?
4.4 days: 8.7M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 2.0M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is TBLA short interest rising or falling?
TBLA short interest rose (+6.4%) from 8.2M to 8.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is TBLA a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores TBLA 25 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 11.9/40, days to cover 10.9/25, change in short interest vs prior report 1.9/15, price change since settlement date 0/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of TBLA daily volume is sold short?
50.8% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 78th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was TBLA's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Taboola (TBLA) was 385,368 shares, 62.6% of 615,377 total volume.
How many TBLA short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Taboola (TBLA), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did TBLA short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Taboola (TBLA) moved from 50.7% on Oct 30, 2026 to 62.6% on Nov 2, 2026, up 11.9 percentage points.
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