Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) short interest & short volume · 0.8% of float short
Wells Fargo & Company official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
WFC short interest rose 9.0% to 26.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (0.8% of float, 1.5 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 41.6% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 40.0% the 20 sessions before, the 56th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 26.7M
- prior 24.5M
- % of float
- 0.8%
- float 3.25B
- Days to cover
- 1.5
- avg vol 17.3M
- Change vs prior report
- +9.0%
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)
- 61.7%
- 3.2M of 5.2M
- 20-day average
- 41.6%
- prior 40.0%
- Percentile vs own history
- 56th
- 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: +3.4%
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 · WFC overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 3,206,917 | 5,198,499 | 61.7% |
| 2026-10-30 | 1,498,520 | 3,577,441 | 41.9% |
| 2026-10-29 | 1,831,909 | 3,653,187 | 50.1% |
| 2026-10-28 | 2,871,677 | 5,444,166 | 52.8% |
| 2026-10-27 | 1,233,148 | 2,472,997 | 49.9% |
| 2026-10-26 | 985,582 | 2,719,093 | 36.3% |
| 2026-10-23 | 1,166,908 | 2,453,683 | 47.6% |
| 2026-10-22 | 1,584,351 | 3,327,556 | 47.6% |
| 2026-10-21 | 1,360,094 | 2,672,690 | 50.9% |
| 2026-10-20 | 2,304,738 | 4,846,434 | 47.6% |
Financials peers with similar quant ratings
WFC is rated 2.68 of 5 among 516 rated Financials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 4, 2026). How the rating works
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- NBBK short interest2.70 · Hold · stock
- TCBI short interest2.69 · Hold · stock
- NMR short interest2.67 · Hold
- USCB short interest2.67 · Hold · stock
- WTFC short interest2.66 · Hold
- FINV short interest2.65 · Hold · stock
WFC short interest FAQ
What is WFC's short interest?
Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) had 26.7M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 0.8% of its 3.25B-share float.
How many days to cover does WFC have?
1.5 days: 26.7M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 17.3M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is WFC short interest rising or falling?
WFC short interest rose (+9.0%) from 24.5M to 26.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is WFC a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores WFC 10 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 1.1/40, days to cover 3.9/25, change in short interest vs prior report 2.7/15, price change since settlement date 2.7/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of WFC daily volume is sold short?
41.6% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 56th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was WFC's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) was 3,206,917 shares, 61.7% of 5,198,499 total volume.
How many WFC short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did WFC short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) moved from 41.9% on Oct 30, 2026 to 61.7% on Nov 2, 2026, up 19.8 percentage points.
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