WPM stock
Wheaton Precious Metals Corp (WPM) short interest & short volume · 1.3% of float short
Wheaton Precious Metals Corp official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
WPM short interest was little changed at 5.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (1.3% of float, 4.3 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 52.5% of volume over the last 20 sessions, down from 58.8% the 20 sessions before, the 39th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Oct 6, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 5.7M
- prior 5.7M
- % of float
- 1.3%
- float 453.0M
- Days to cover
- 4.3
- avg vol 1.3M
- Change vs prior report
- -0.7%
| Report date | Shares short | $ value short | Change | % float | Days to cover | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 2026 | 5.7M | $758.6M | -0.7% | 1.3% | 4.3 | $133.16 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 5.7M | $767.4M | -9.7% | 1.3% | 2.8 | $133.72 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 6.4M | $953.7M | +3.2% | 1.4% | 3.5 | $150.02 |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 6.2M | $929.2M | +17.5% | 1.4% | 2.2 | $150.83 |
| Aug 14, 2026 | 5.2M | $703.7M | +24.7% | 1.2% | 2.5 | $134.21 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | 4.2M | $458.4M | +33.6% | 0.9% | 2.5 | $109.03 |
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 11)
- 66.1%
- 273K of 413K
- 20-day average
- 52.5%
- prior 58.8%
- Percentile vs own history
- 39th
- 233 periods since 2025
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Source: FINRA Reg SHO daily short sale volume · Latest Nov 11, 2026
Short squeeze score (model)
Price since settlement: -1.0%
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 · WPM overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-11 | 272,880 | 412,994 | 66.1% |
| 2026-11-10 | 481,390 | 1,063,447 | 45.3% |
| 2026-11-09 | 505,944 | 860,487 | 58.8% |
| 2026-11-06 | 356,817 | 645,820 | 55.3% |
| 2026-11-05 | 800,019 | 1,341,769 | 59.6% |
| 2026-11-04 | 775,814 | 1,903,203 | 40.8% |
| 2026-11-03 | 219,143 | 526,040 | 41.7% |
| 2026-11-02 | 1,375,574 | 2,709,050 | 50.8% |
| 2026-10-30 | 455,120 | 1,300,054 | 35.0% |
| 2026-10-29 | 341,553 | 590,469 | 57.8% |
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WPM among 161 rated Materials stocks (Lician quant rating, Nov 13, 2026). How the rating works
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WPM short interest FAQ
What is WPM's short interest?
Wheaton Precious Metals Corp (WPM) had 5.7M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 1.3% of its 453.0M-share float.
How many days to cover does WPM have?
4.3 days: 5.7M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 1.3M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is WPM short interest rising or falling?
WPM short interest was little changed (-0.7%) from 5.7M to 5.7M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is WPM a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores WPM 13 out of 100 (low) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 1.7/40, days to cover 10.8/25, change in short interest vs prior report 0/15, 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 WPM daily volume is sold short?
52.5% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 11, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 39th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was WPM's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 11, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Wheaton Precious Metals Corp (WPM) was 272,880 shares, 66.1% of 412,994 total volume.
How many WPM short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Wheaton Precious Metals Corp (WPM), from Oct 29, 2026 through Nov 11, 2026.
How did WPM short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Wheaton Precious Metals Corp (WPM) moved from 45.3% on Nov 10, 2026 to 66.1% on Nov 11, 2026, up 20.8 percentage points.
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