Willscot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp A (WSC) short interest & short volume · 8.1% of float short
Willscot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp A official short interest (FINRA, twice monthly) and daily short volume (FINRA Reg SHO), with history, % of float and days to cover.
What changed
WSC short interest rose 4.8% to 14.3M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report (8.1% of float, 5.6 days to cover). Daily short volume averaged 37.1% of volume over the last 20 sessions, up from 35.9% the 20 sessions before, the 16th percentile of its own 20-day averages since Sep 23, 2025.
Short interest
Official, twice monthly · settled Oct 15, 2026
- Shares short
- 14.3M
- prior 13.7M
- % of float
- 8.1%
- float 177.1M
- Days to cover
- 5.6
- avg vol 2.6M
- Change vs prior report
- +4.8%
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)
- 25.9%
- 473K of 1.8M
- 20-day average
- 37.1%
- prior 35.9%
- Percentile vs own history
- 16th
- 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: +19.6%
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 · WSC overview
| Date | Short | Total | Short % of volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 473,135 | 1,828,408 | 25.9% |
| 2026-10-30 | 287,217 | 668,687 | 43.0% |
| 2026-10-29 | 369,754 | 1,015,574 | 36.4% |
| 2026-10-28 | 1,227,507 | 1,758,663 | 69.8% |
| 2026-10-27 | 1,035,607 | 2,181,580 | 47.5% |
| 2026-10-26 | 572,519 | 1,228,460 | 46.6% |
| 2026-10-23 | 523,177 | 1,409,490 | 37.1% |
| 2026-10-22 | 340,076 | 1,553,929 | 21.9% |
| 2026-10-21 | 308,236 | 1,884,568 | 16.4% |
| 2026-10-20 | 408,330 | 1,410,219 | 29.0% |
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WSC short interest FAQ
What is WSC's short interest?
Willscot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp A (WSC) had 14.3M shares sold short and not yet covered in FINRA's Oct 15, 2026 settlement report, 8.1% of its 177.1M-share float.
How many days to cover does WSC have?
5.6 days: 14.3M shares short divided by an average daily volume of 2.6M for the Oct 15, 2026 period.
Is WSC short interest rising or falling?
WSC short interest rose (+4.8%) from 13.7M to 14.3M shares in the Oct 15, 2026 report.
Is WSC a short squeeze candidate?
Lician's squeeze watch scores WSC 42 out of 100 (elevated) from the Oct 15, 2026 report: short interest % of float 10.8/40, days to cover 13.9/25, change in short interest vs prior report 1.4/15, price change since settlement date 15.7/20. It is a transparent model of how crowded the short side is, not a forecast that a squeeze will happen.
What share of WSC daily volume is sold short?
37.1% on average over the last 20 sessions to Nov 2, 2026 (FINRA Reg SHO daily short volume; the 16th percentile of its own 20-day averages). Short volume counts market makers' same-day short sales, so it is not short interest.
What was WSC's latest FINRA short volume?
On Nov 2, 2026, cached FINRA short volume for Willscot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp A (WSC) was 473,135 shares, 25.9% of 1,828,408 total volume.
How many WSC short-volume sessions are listed on this page?
This page lists 10 cached FINRA short-volume sessions for Willscot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp A (WSC), from Oct 20, 2026 through Nov 2, 2026.
How did WSC short volume percent change from the prior cached session?
Cached FINRA short volume for Willscot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp A (WSC) moved from 43.0% on Oct 30, 2026 to 25.9% on Nov 2, 2026, down 17.1 percentage points.
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