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BP PLC

BPAQF
Exchange
OTC
Industry
Petroleum Refining
SEC CIK
0000313807

No open-market purchases or sales by BP PLC insiders were filed in the last 90 days; 1 institution reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $934.1K in total; no superinvestor holds it.

Other share classesBPBPPFF

Four kinds of short-selling data, each measuring something different:

  • Short interest: shares sold short and not yet bought back, as of a settlement date. FINRA publishes it twice a month, about eight business days after the settlement date.
  • Daily short volume: shares sold short each day in off-exchange trades reported to FINRA. It counts trades, not open positions, and is published the next day.
  • Fails-to-deliver: shares not delivered by the settlement date. The SEC publishes them twice a month, about two weeks late.
  • ATS (dark pool) volume: weekly volume on alternative trading systems and other off-exchange venues. FINRA publishes it two to four weeks after the week.

More in the glossary.

Short interest

Shares sold short and not yet bought back, from FINRA, on every settlement date in the last two years.

Short interest
291.6K
Shares, settlement Oct 30, 2026
Change
−526.1K
−64.3% vs. Oct 15, 2026
Days to cover
13.34
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
21.9K
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 31, 2024: 3,212,682 sharesNov 15, 2024: 1,934,156 sharesNov 29, 2024: 243,225 sharesDec 13, 2024: 1,555,947 sharesDec 31, 2024: 1,419,201 sharesJan 15, 2025: 432,974 sharesJan 31, 2025: 650,520 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 2,576,826 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 3,245,214 sharesMar 14, 2025: 4,721,030 sharesMar 31, 2025: 4,297,226 sharesApr 15, 2025: 5,911,221 sharesApr 30, 2025: 5,426,507 sharesMay 15, 2025: 4,784,086 sharesMay 30, 2025: 4,932,411 sharesJun 13, 2025: 5,573,443 sharesJun 30, 2025: 6,226,737 sharesJul 15, 2025: 7,947,326 sharesJul 31, 2025: 4,855,557 sharesAug 15, 2025: 5,170,465 sharesAug 29, 2025: 3,889,565 sharesSep 15, 2025: 3,482,879 sharesSep 30, 2025: 3,273,448 sharesOct 15, 2025: 5,025,728 sharesOct 31, 2025: 4,754,835 sharesNov 14, 2025: 3,017,308 sharesNov 28, 2025: 2,254,052 sharesDec 15, 2025: 5,102,552 sharesDec 31, 2025: 8,799,769 sharesJan 15, 2026: 6,613,352 sharesJan 30, 2026: 7,199,643 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 7,448,697 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 4,853,526 sharesMar 13, 2026: 3,307,172 sharesMar 31, 2026: 1,287,942 sharesApr 15, 2026: 2,675,101 sharesApr 30, 2026: 1,499,571 sharesMay 15, 2026: 4,067,635 sharesMay 29, 2026: 2,392,099 sharesJun 15, 2026: 2,289,931 sharesJun 30, 2026: 5,273,296 sharesJul 15, 2026: 6,386,707 sharesJul 31, 2026: 5,046,672 sharesAug 14, 2026: 5,057,798 sharesAug 31, 2026: 3,744,695 sharesSep 15, 2026: 2,616,045 sharesSep 30, 2026: 2,005,039 sharesOct 15, 2026: 817,743 sharesOct 30, 2026: 291,632 shares
Short interest in BPAQF by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 30, 2026291.6K−526.1K−64.3%21.9K13.34
Oct 15, 2026817.7K−1.19M−59.2%10.6K77.26
Sep 30, 20262.01M−611.0K−23.4%3.90K514.51
Sep 15, 20262.62M−1.13M−30.1%1.88K> 999
Aug 31, 20263.74M−1.31M−26.0%6.07K617.43
Aug 14, 20265.06M+11.1K+0.2%782> 999
Jul 31, 20265.05M−1.34M−21.0%17.0K297.55
Jul 15, 20266.39M+1.11M+21.1%7.45K857.28
Jun 30, 20265.27M+2.98M+130.3%5.86K899.73
Jun 15, 20262.29M−102.2K−4.3%7.46K306.84
May 29, 20262.39M−1.68M−41.2%256.4K9.33
May 15, 20264.07M+2.57M+171.3%5.73K709.64
Apr 30, 20261.50M−1.18M−43.9%4.40K341.04
Apr 15, 20262.68M+1.39M+107.7%10.9K245.85
Mar 31, 20261.29M−2.02M−61.1%24.2K53.28
Mar 13, 20263.31M−1.55M−31.9%31.8K103.89
Feb 27, 20264.85M−2.60M−34.8%137.3K35.34
Feb 13, 20267.45M+249.1K+3.5%7.51K991.44
Jan 30, 20267.20M+586.3K+8.9%5.95K> 999
Jan 15, 20266.61M−2.19M−24.9%214.1K30.89
Dec 31, 20258.80M+3.70M+72.5%3.00K> 999
Dec 15, 20255.10M+2.85M+126.4%7.75K658.31
Nov 28, 20252.25M−763.3K−25.3%8.51K265.03
Nov 14, 20253.02M−1.74M−36.5%22.2K136.04
Oct 31, 20254.75M−270.9K−5.4%932> 999
Oct 15, 20255.03M+1.75M+53.5%9.97K503.93
Sep 30, 20253.27M−209.4K−6.0%7.35K445.25
Sep 15, 20253.48M−406.7K−10.5%958.2K3.63
Aug 29, 20253.89M−1.28M−24.8%22.1K176.12
Aug 15, 20255.17M+314.9K+6.5%19.1K271.20
Jul 31, 20254.86M−3.09M−38.9%23.9K202.89
Jul 15, 20257.95M+1.72M+27.6%34.0K233.70
Jun 30, 20256.23M+653.3K+11.7%57.5K108.26
Jun 13, 20255.57M+641.0K+13.0%72.0K77.38
May 30, 20254.93M+148.3K+3.1%71.1K69.36
May 15, 20254.78M−642.4K−11.8%99.9K47.90
Apr 30, 20255.43M−484.7K−8.2%44.1K123.02
Apr 15, 20255.91M+1.61M+37.6%103.7K56.99
Mar 31, 20254.30M−423.8K−9.0%17.2K249.51
Mar 14, 20254.72M+1.48M+45.5%320.1K14.75
Feb 28, 20253.25M+668.4K+25.9%34.9K93.08
Feb 14, 20252.58M+1.93M+296.1%100.7K25.59
Jan 31, 2025650.5K+217.5K+50.2%148.9K4.37
Jan 15, 2025433.0K−986.2K−69.5%206.2K2.10
Dec 31, 20241.42M−136.7K−8.8%298.6K4.75
Dec 13, 20241.56M+1.31M+539.7%263.4K5.91
Nov 29, 2024243.2K−1.69M−87.4%120.6K2.02
Nov 15, 20241.93M−1.28M−39.8%128.8K15.01
Oct 31, 20243.21M+1.60M+98.8%138.9K23.12

Fails-to-deliver

Shares that weren't delivered by the settlement date, from the SEC, for the last 30 dates with fails. The price is the previous day's closing price published by the SEC.

The SEC has reported no fails-to-deliver for BPAQF.

Daily short volume

Off-exchange short-sale volume, not short interest: shares sold short each day in trades reported to FINRA, for the last 30 trading days.

The short volume ratio isn't a sentiment gauge: market makers sell short to fill buy orders and to hedge, so short sales are usually about half of off-exchange volume.

FINRA has reported no daily short volume for BPAQF in the last two years.

ATS (dark pool) volume

Weekly volume on alternative trading systems (ATS) and other off-exchange (OTC) venues, from FINRA, for the last 12 weeks. ATS share is ATS volume ÷ (ATS + OTC volume), not a share of all trading.

Weekly ATS and OTC volume in BPAQF
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 5, 2026OTCE––37,76712–
Sep 28, 2026OTCE––13,66610–
Sep 21, 2026OTCE––5,10211–
Sep 14, 2026OTCE––2,7969–
Sep 7, 2026OTCE––2,67310–
Aug 31, 2026OTCE––12,00513–
Aug 24, 2026OTCE––6,18714–
Aug 17, 2026OTCE––27,17017–
Aug 10, 2026OTCE––1,2387–
Aug 3, 2026OTCE––106,46914–
Jul 27, 2026OTCE––10,0469–
Jul 20, 2026OTCE––101,43922–