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BGS Short Interest

B&G Foods, Inc.
1W: -4.6% 1M: -29.6% 3M: -44.0% YTD: -50.2% 1Y: -53.2% 3Y: -69.2% 5Y: -89.7%
$2.08
+0.04 (+1.96%)
 
Weekly Expected Move ±7.9%
$2 $2 $2 $2 $2
NYSE · Consumer Defensive · Packaged Foods · Tech Score Strong Sell · Power 28 · $169.1M mcap · 77M float · 2.82% daily turnover · Short 58% of daily vol
Credit Risk of going bust: higher than 86% of companies Debt: 93.8% of company value Bonds: $267.9M held by 167 funds, 733 bp over Treasuries → details ▾
Of US companies ranked in the second-riskiest tenth, about 1 in 87 filed for bankruptcy within a year (2020-2025).
If the stock fell to about $0.91 (down 56%), B&G Foods, Inc. would be worth roughly what it owes.
Total debt $2.58B against a stock market value of $169.1M.
Distance to default 2.00 (Merton model): prices to 2026-10-27, balance sheet 2026-07-04, debt counted $1.52B (short-term plus half of long-term), stock volatility 50.8%; Altman Z 0.95. A ranking and a back-test, not a forecast.
Bond figures are fund-reported marks (SEC N-PORT) as of Jul 2026. How these are computed.

Short Volume Summary

2026-10-26
57.1%
Short Ratio
of total volume
59.4%
20-Day Avg
59.4%
50-Day Avg
▼ Falling
5-Day Trend
0.5M
Short Volume
0.8M
Total Volume

Daily Short Volume Ratio

Short Volume vs Total Volume

Exchange Breakdown

2026-10-26
ExchangeShort VolumeTotal VolumeShort %
NASDAQ 462,098 810,601 57.0%
NYSE 13,460 16,109 83.6%
BATS 820 7,209 11.4%

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