NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — At the end of the settlement date of January 15, 2026, short interest in 3,515 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 15,349,969,813 shares compared with 15,183,396,236 shares in 3,498 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of December 31, 2025. The mid-January short interest represents 2.88 days compared with 2.83 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,669 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 3,478,325,627 shares at the end of the settlement date of January 15, 2026, compared with 3,382,557,383 shares in 1,671 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.19 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.27.
In summary, short interest in all 5,184 Nasdaq® securities totaled 18,828,295,440 shares at the January 15, 2026 settlement date, compared with 5,169 issues and 18,565,953,619 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.28 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.31 days for the prior reporting period.
The open short interest positions reported for each Nasdaq security reflect the total number of shares sold short by all broker/dealers regardless of their exchange affiliations. A short sale is generally understood to mean the sale of a security that the seller does not own or any sale that is consummated by the delivery of a security borrowed by or for the account of the seller.
For more information on Nasdaq Short interest positions, including publication dates, visit https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/quotes/short-interest or http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
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