Townsquare Media Inc (TSQ) short interest & short volume · 2.5% of float short
Townsquare Media Inc official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
TSQ short interest rose 6.4% to 340K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (2.5% of float, 3.2 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 56.2% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 57.6% the 20 sessions before, the 65th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 340K
- prior 319K
- % of float
- 2.5%
- float 13.3M
- Days to cover
- 3.2
- avg vol 105K
- 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)
- 55.0%
- 62K of 113K
- 20-day average
- 56.2%
- prior 57.6%
- Percentile vs own history
- 65th
- 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: -22.6%
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 · TSQ overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 62,296 | 113,345 | 55.0% |
| 2026-10-30 | 30,604 | 53,694 | 57.0% |
| 2026-10-29 | 26,603 | 51,786 | 51.4% |
| 2026-10-28 | 46,415 | 71,738 | 64.7% |
| 2026-10-27 | 57,529 | 115,731 | 49.7% |
| 2026-10-26 | 49,715 | 92,772 | 53.6% |
| 2026-10-23 | 111,884 | 183,371 | 61.0% |
| 2026-10-22 | 27,289 | 53,569 | 50.9% |
| 2026-10-21 | 15,636 | 30,693 | 50.9% |
| 2026-10-20 | 30,344 | 55,156 | 55.0% |
Communication Services peers with similar quant ratings
TSQ 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
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- SPOT short interest4.87 · Strong Buy
- MAX short interest4.83 · Strong Buy · stock
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TSQ short interest FAQ
What is TSQ's short interest?
Townsquare Media Inc (TSQ) had 340K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 2.5% of its 13.3M-share float.
How many days to cover does TSQ have?
3.2 days: 340K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 105K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is TSQ short interest rising or falling?
TSQ short interest rose (+6.4%) from 319K to 340K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is TSQ a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores TSQ 13 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 3.4/40, days to cover 8.1/25, 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 TSQ daily volume is sold short?
56.2% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 65th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was TSQ's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Townsquare Media Inc (TSQ) was 62,296 shares, 55.0% of 113,345 total volume.
How many TSQ short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Townsquare Media Inc (TSQ), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did TSQ short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Townsquare Media Inc (TSQ) moved from 57.0% on Oct 30, 2026 to 55.0% on Nov 2, 2026, down 2.0 percentage points.
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