VSE Corporation (VSEC) short interest & short volume · 14.7% of float short
VSE Corporation official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
VSEC short interest rose 29.6% to 3.0M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (14.7% of float, 5.4 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 48.8% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 61.0% the 20 sessions before, the 1st percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 3.0M
- prior 2.3M
- % of float
- 14.7%
- float 20.2M
- Days to cover
- 5.4
- avg vol 548K
- Change vs prior report
- +29.6%
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)
- 64.3%
- 128K of 199K
- 20-day average
- 48.8%
- prior 61.0%
- Percentile vs own history
- 1st
- 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: +0.9%
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 · VSEC overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 127,741 | 198,761 | 64.3% |
| 2026-10-30 | 58,796 | 127,018 | 46.3% |
| 2026-10-29 | 75,534 | 239,911 | 31.5% |
| 2026-10-28 | 74,564 | 182,273 | 40.9% |
| 2026-10-27 | 57,516 | 157,021 | 36.6% |
| 2026-10-26 | 106,649 | 191,660 | 55.6% |
| 2026-10-23 | 164,685 | 307,683 | 53.5% |
| 2026-10-22 | 93,076 | 272,091 | 34.2% |
| 2026-10-21 | 112,090 | 263,092 | 42.6% |
| 2026-10-20 | 102,976 | 217,517 | 47.3% |
Industrials peers with similar quant ratings
VSEC is rated 3.44 of 5 among 418 rated Industrials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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- TAYD short interest3.45 · Hold · stock
- DY short interest3.43 · Hold · stock
- ITW short interest3.42 · Hold · stock
- RBC short interest3.41 · Hold · stock
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VSEC short interest FAQ
What is VSEC's short interest?
VSE Corporation (VSEC) had 3.0M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 14.7% of its 20.2M-share float.
How many days to cover does VSEC have?
5.4 days: 3.0M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 548K for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is VSEC short interest rising or falling?
VSEC short interest rose (+29.6%) from 2.3M to 3.0M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is VSEC a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores VSEC 43 out of 100 (elevated) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 19.6/40, days to cover 13.6/25, change in short interest vs prior report 8.9/15, price change since settlement date 0.7/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of VSEC daily volume is sold short?
48.8% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 1st percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was VSEC's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for VSE Corporation (VSEC) was 127,741 shares, 64.3% of 198,761 total volume.
How many VSEC short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for VSE Corporation (VSEC), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did VSEC short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for VSE Corporation (VSEC) moved from 46.3% on Oct 30, 2026 to 64.3% on Nov 2, 2026, up 18.0 percentage points.
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