VirnetX Holding Corp (VHC) short interest & short volume · 4.1% of float short
VirnetX Holding Corp official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
VHC short interest rose 2.3% to 149K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (4.1% of float, 7.7 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 53.3% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 56.6% the 20 sessions before, the 80th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 149K
- prior 145K
- % of float
- 4.1%
- float 3.6M
- Days to cover
- 7.7
- avg vol 19K
- Change vs prior report
- +2.3%
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)
- 37.1%
- 844 of 2K
- 20-day average
- 53.3%
- prior 56.6%
- Percentile vs own history
- 80th
- 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: -15.0%
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 · VHC overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 844 | 2,275 | 37.1% |
| 2026-10-30 | 5,918 | 20,879 | 28.3% |
| 2026-10-29 | 1,988 | 5,060 | 39.3% |
| 2026-10-28 | 282 | 590 | 47.8% |
| 2026-10-27 | 1,311 | 3,659 | 35.8% |
| 2026-10-26 | 1,801 | 2,887 | 62.4% |
| 2026-10-23 | 1,037 | 1,803 | 57.5% |
| 2026-10-22 | 2,268 | 5,631 | 40.3% |
| 2026-10-21 | 637 | 988 | 64.5% |
| 2026-10-20 | 5,472 | 13,592 | 40.3% |
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VHC short interest FAQ
What is VHC's short interest?
VirnetX Holding Corp (VHC) had 149K shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 4.1% of its 3.6M-share float.
How many days to cover does VHC have?
7.7 days: 149K shares short divided by an average daily volume of 19K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is VHC short interest rising or falling?
VHC short interest rose (+2.3%) from 145K to 149K shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is VHC a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores VHC 26 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 5.5/40, days to cover 19.3/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0.7/15, 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 VHC daily volume is sold short?
53.3% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 80th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was VHC's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for VirnetX Holding Corp (VHC) was 844 shares, 37.1% of 2,275 total volume.
How many VHC short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for VirnetX Holding Corp (VHC), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did VHC short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for VirnetX Holding Corp (VHC) moved from 28.3% on Oct 30, 2026 to 37.1% on Nov 2, 2026, up 8.8 percentage points.
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