HSBC Holdings plc
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HSBC Holdings plc (NYSE:HSBC) is a publicly traded company in the Finance sector. Wiseek has independently scored 45 items for HSBC at importance 7 or higher on its 1–10 market-impact scale. Its most recent item scored 7 or higher is dated 2026-10-27, rated 8/10. Across its 20 most recent items scored 7 or higher, the top rating is 9/10, with 7 rated 8 or above. Recent SEC coverage for HSBC spans 6-K, 424B5, FWP.
Recent high-impact activity:
- HSBC 3Q26 Profit Jumps 32% to $9.6bn; New $1bn Buy-Back and $0.10 Dividend
- HSBC Group CFO Pam Kaur to Step Down in 2027; Succession Search Underway
- HSBC Completes $6.75B Senior Notes Issuance, Adds $1B Floating Rate Tranche
- HSBC Prices Tender Offers for Four Note Series, Upsizes Cap to $6.75B
- HSBC Finalizes $6.75B Senior Notes Offering to Fund Tender Offers
Financial Snapshot
Short Interest & Short Volume
2.12 days to coverFINRA reported short interest of 4,610,807 shares in HSBC as of the October 15, 2026 settlement, a 6.0% decrease from the prior period — about 2.1 days to cover at its recent average daily volume. On October 30, 2026, 50.0% of HSBC volume reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities was marked short.
Daily short sale volume covers trades reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities and is not the same as short interest (bi-monthly reported positions). Source: FINRA — FINRA is the owner and source of this short interest and short sale volume data; it may not be redistributed.
Dilution Risk
Low riskFiling-implied dilution signals for HSBC, detected from its recent SEC filings · based on capital-structure filings through 2026-05-12.
$1.5 Billion Capital Raise · Perpetual & Subordinated Nature
A filing-implied signal, not a realized share count. How Wiseek tracks dilution →
Insider Transactions
HSBC files as a Foreign Private Issuer (FPI). Under SEC Exchange Act Section 16(a), officers, directors, and 10% owners of FPIs are exempt from Form 4 insider-transaction reporting requirements. Comparable disclosures, when applicable, appear in the company's Form 20-F (annual) or Form 6-K (interim) filings on SEC EDGAR.