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Short interest
Short interest is the number of shares investors have sold short and not yet bought back. FINRA, which oversees US brokers, publishes it for every US-listed stock twice a month.
- Where it comes from
FINRA publishes the totals that brokers report, twice a month.
Who reports it: Brokers report their customers' short positions to FINRA, which publishes the totals.
Official source
- How often we update it
- Twice a month, when FINRA publishes new figures
- Last updated
- (18 hours ago)
- Coverage
- Reports since October 2024.
- Worth knowing
- A high number can reflect bets that the price will fall, or hedges against other positions. Days to cover is shares short divided by average daily volume: roughly how many days of normal trading it would take to buy them all back.
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