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Beyond Meat, Inc.
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BYND in the last 90 days
Beyond Meat, Inc. (BYND) had no US House transactions and no insider purchases in filings from the last 90 days.
FINRA’s latest report (settlement 15 SEPT 2026) shows 5,092,081 shares held short, 4.7 days to cover, up 9.0% from the report before.
- Delay: each filing below shows how many days passed between the trade and its publication. None of this is real-time.
Latest filing on file: — · FINRA settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed
Beyond Meat (BYND) short interest, report by report
FINRA has published 26 short interest reports for Beyond Meat since August 2025, and each one is in the table on this page. In the 15 September 2026 report, 5,092,081 BYND shares were held short. At the average of 1,093,085 shares traded a day, that equals 4.66 days to cover.
Before August 2026 the counts were far larger. Shares held short rose from 31,116,156 at the end of August 2025 to 147,395,367 on 13 February 2026. They stayed between 124,635,681 and 147,395,367 until the end of July 2026.
The fall to 5,121,711 shares in the 14 August 2026 report does not mean short sellers bought back. FINRA marked that report with a stock split flag: the share count itself was restated. Figures from before and after that date count different shares, so this page does not draw one line through them.
Trading volume moved even more than the short position. The 31 October 2025 report put average volume at 749,555,037 shares a day, against 2,248,617 in August 2025. Shares held short more than doubled over those two months, yet days to cover fell to 1.0.
- Is Beyond Meat going to short squeeze?
- No filing can say that, and this page does not guess. The filings show the size of the short position and how it moved: 5,092,081 shares and 4.66 days to cover in the 15 September 2026 report, up 8.99% from two weeks before. A squeeze depends on prices and trading that no report records in advance.
- Is 32% short interest high?
- A figure like 32% divides shares held short by the float, the shares free to trade. FINRA does not publish float, and data providers count it in different ways, so Quiet Money shows days to cover instead. In the 15 September 2026 report, BYND’s 4.66 days ranked 1,799th of the 3,799 US listings that trade at least 100,000 shares a day.
- What is the most heavily shorted stock right now?
- It depends on the measure, and the answer changes with every FINRA report. In the 15 September 2026 report, Citizens, Inc. (CIA) had the most days to cover, 37.1, among listings trading at least 100,000 shares a day. NVIDIA (NVDA) had the most shares held short, 294,225,803. The high short interest list on this site is rebuilt from each new report.
What the filings show
What the filings show · last 90 days · Quiet Money indicator
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The disclosed money is leaning away from this name, on what has actually been filed. This reads on one source only, so treat it lightly.
- Short interest
- Short interest rose 9.0% — 4,672,133 to 5,092,081 shares between 31 AUG 2026 and 15 SEPT 2026. See the filings →
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This summarises filings that have already been published — it is not a forecast, a rating of the company, or advice. Every figure above is listed in full further down this page, with the document it came from.
FINRA short interest
Settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · shares held short
5,092,081shares held short
Days to cover
4.66
Avg daily volume
1,093,085
Since last report
+8.99%
As of 15 September 2026, 5,092,081 Beyond Meat, Inc. shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 419,948 shares more than the previous report, a 8.99% increase. At the average daily volume of 1,093,085 shares, that position represents 4.66 days of trading — what the filing calls days to cover.
This is the most recent figure that exists, and it is 18 days old. FINRA collects short interest twice a month, on a settlement date, and publishes it seven business days later. So nobody has a live short-interest number for BYND — not us, and not anyone quoting one. We print the settlement date on the figure so you always know which day you are looking at.
We are not showing a longer trend for BYND: a stock split inside this window restated the share count, and comparing figures across it would be comparing two different things.
| Settlement | Shares short | Days to cover |
|---|---|---|
| 15 SEPT 2026 | 5,092,081 | 4.66 |
| 31 AUG 2026 | 4,672,133 | 2.98 |
| 14 AUG 2026 | 5,121,711 · split | 2.25 |
| 31 JUL 2026 | 130,476,904 | 5.55 |
| 15 JUL 2026 | 130,851,657 | 4.38 |
| 30 JUN 2026 | 124,635,681 | 3.72 |
| 15 JUN 2026 | 147,137,949 | 3.91 |
| 29 MAY 2026 | 141,468,231 | 4.53 |
| 15 MAY 2026 | 137,242,340 | 2.19 |
| 30 APR 2026 | 125,976,857 | 1.00 |
| 15 APR 2026 | 142,138,059 | 3.96 |
| 31 MAR 2026 | 141,726,324 | 5.25 |
- What is BYND's short interest?
- 5,092,081 shares, as of the 15 September 2026 settlement date. That is the figure FINRA published, unadjusted.
- What percentage of the float is short?
- We do not publish that, because FINRA does not publish float. The regulator reports the number of shares held short; turning it into a percentage needs a share count from somewhere else, and different sources disagree about what counts as float. We would rather give you the number that was actually filed than a percentage built on an assumption.
- How current is this?
- It is 18 days old, and that is as fresh as short interest gets. FINRA measures it twice a month and publishes it seven business days after the settlement date. Any site showing you a "live" short interest figure is showing you something else.
- What does days to cover mean?
- It is the short position divided by average daily trading volume — here, 4.66. It describes how many days of ordinary trading the position is equivalent to. It is arithmetic from the filing, not a prediction about what will happen.
- Where does this come from?
- FINRA's consolidated short interest file, which is public. We read it directly and store it unchanged, except that we blank the days-to-cover placeholder FINRA writes when a stock has almost no volume.
Disclosed insider buying on file
—no purchase on file passed the price check
Open-market purchases only — the amount is a fact, not a verdict.
On file here
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Insider purchases0
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