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Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc.

HOS
Exchange
NYSE
Industry
Oil & Gas Field Services, NEC
SEC CIK
0000866829

In the last 90 days, Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. insiders filed 1 open-market purchase and 0 sales; 285 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $1.19B in total; no superinvestor holds it.

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
9.75M
Shares, settlement Oct 30, 2026
Change
+1.18M
+13.8% vs. Oct 15, 2026
Days to cover
3.96
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
2.46M
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Sep 15, 2026: 9,924,306 sharesSep 30, 2026: 8,722,222 sharesOct 15, 2026: 8,563,539 sharesOct 30, 2026: 9,745,066 shares
Short interest in HOS by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 30, 20269.75M+1.18M+13.8%2.46M3.96
Oct 15, 20268.56M−158.7K−1.8%2.61M3.28
Sep 30, 20268.72M−1.20M−12.1%2.60M3.36
Sep 15, 20269.92M+2.75M+38.3%3.15M3.15

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.

Fails-to-deliver in HOS by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Oct 13, 20261,778$7.38$13.1K
Oct 8, 20262,097$7.47$15.7K
Oct 2, 2026864$7.79$6.73K
Sep 29, 202620,515$7.94$162.9K
Sep 28, 2026724$8.19$5.93K
Sep 24, 20261,615$8.35$13.5K
Sep 23, 2026774$8.41$6.51K
Sep 22, 20261,092$8.33$9.10K
Sep 18, 2026159$8.58$1.36K
Sep 14, 2026510$8.88$4.53K
Sep 9, 202616$9.08$145.28
Sep 8, 202627$9.20$248.4
Sep 2, 2026100$10.60$1.06K
Aug 17, 20263$10.43$31.29
Aug 11, 2026109$10.00$1.09K
Jul 27, 2026115$9.91$1.14K
Jul 16, 2026483$9.43$4.55K
Jul 9, 2026657$9.11$5.99K
Jul 1, 2026684$8.74$5.98K
Jun 30, 202649,255$8.71$429.0K
Jun 29, 202666,735$8.87$591.9K
May 26, 2026408$10.08$4.11K
May 22, 20261,062$10.04$10.7K
May 21, 202638$10.23$388.74
May 19, 20265,906$10.47$61.8K
May 7, 2026173$9.85$1.70K
Apr 27, 20264,514$9.89$44.6K
Apr 13, 202686,262$9.56$824.7K
Apr 6, 20263,698$9.61$35.5K
Apr 1, 2026886$9.89$8.76K

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.

Off-exchange short volume in HOS by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Nov 12, 20261,195,21701,945,35161.4%
Nov 11, 20261,215,5731,0592,041,83459.5%
Nov 10, 2026699,8661,1251,625,65643.1%
Nov 9, 2026637,95801,664,25238.3%
Nov 6, 2026907,918110,1291,841,54849.3%
Nov 5, 20261,299,34024,0872,565,75550.6%
Nov 4, 2026942,1235,7071,726,72054.6%
Nov 3, 2026597,4654181,298,75846.0%
Nov 2, 2026581,3844,1901,228,68547.3%
Oct 30, 2026420,88601,058,46939.8%
Oct 29, 2026506,5773001,081,53646.8%
Oct 28, 2026335,87928963,36634.9%
Oct 27, 2026340,3609,8031,075,88431.6%
Oct 26, 2026416,7972,736919,38945.3%
Oct 23, 2026549,5562879,81062.5%
Oct 22, 2026561,9420882,47063.7%
Oct 21, 2026374,699400706,90453.0%
Oct 20, 2026368,6800633,66058.2%
Oct 19, 2026385,3640830,29346.4%
Oct 16, 2026548,46501,110,88449.4%
Oct 15, 2026308,5700817,82037.7%
Oct 14, 2026457,7811,126977,55546.8%
Oct 13, 2026348,089435633,41555.0%
Oct 12, 2026328,401300546,55160.1%
Oct 9, 2026281,2230541,23452.0%
Oct 8, 2026287,8170799,81136.0%
Oct 7, 2026388,3350665,85558.3%
Oct 6, 2026287,049784596,69148.1%
Oct 5, 2026521,77901,242,84142.0%
Oct 2, 2026509,26101,097,16046.4%

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 HOS
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 5, 2026T22,394,53532,8783,289,4967,60142.1%
Sep 28, 2026T22,591,40931,7397,605,5918,80225.4%
Sep 21, 2026T21,594,82828,4272,295,2108,05241.0%
Sep 14, 2026T22,587,55241,8033,910,5996,09539.8%
Sep 7, 2026T21,754,70028,7221,943,6495,47147.4%