Truist Financial (TFC) short interest & short volume · 28.2M shares short
Truist Financial official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
TFC short interest fell 6.7% to 28.2M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (3.3 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 55.5% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 60.4% the 20 sessions before, the 31st percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 28.2M
- prior 30.3M
- % of float
- —
- no float on file
- Days to cover
- 3.3
- avg vol 8.5M
- Change vs prior report
- -6.7%
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)
- 60.5%
- 1.2M of 2.0M
- 20-day average
- 55.5%
- prior 60.4%
- Percentile vs own history
- 31st
- 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: +6.1%
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 · TFC overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 1,218,188 | 2,012,315 | 60.5% |
| 2026-10-30 | 1,111,721 | 2,257,742 | 49.2% |
| 2026-10-29 | 1,156,011 | 3,190,128 | 36.2% |
| 2026-10-28 | 1,405,078 | 3,567,235 | 39.4% |
| 2026-10-27 | 1,594,178 | 2,647,291 | 60.2% |
| 2026-10-26 | 2,196,886 | 3,227,732 | 68.1% |
| 2026-10-23 | 1,159,594 | 1,643,484 | 70.6% |
| 2026-10-22 | 1,185,270 | 2,210,563 | 53.6% |
| 2026-10-21 | 1,212,585 | 1,769,391 | 68.5% |
| 2026-10-20 | 1,626,382 | 2,688,319 | 60.5% |
Financials peers with similar quant ratings
TFC is rated 2.34 of 5 among 516 rated Financials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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TFC short interest FAQ
What is TFC's short interest?
Truist Financial (TFC) had 28.2M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report.
How many days to cover does TFC have?
3.3 days: 28.2M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 8.5M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is TFC short interest rising or falling?
TFC short interest fell (-6.7%) from 30.3M to 28.2M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is TFC a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores TFC 13 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: days to cover 8.3/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, price change since settlement date 4.9/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of TFC daily volume is sold short?
55.5% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 31st percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was TFC's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Truist Financial (TFC) was 1,218,188 shares, 60.5% of 2,012,315 total volume.
How many TFC short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Truist Financial (TFC), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did TFC short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Truist Financial (TFC) moved from 49.2% on Oct 30, 2026 to 60.5% on Nov 2, 2026, up 11.3 percentage points.
Not investment advice. Figures as filed or reported, not a live feed.