NEW YORK, May 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — At the end of the settlement date of May 15, 2026, short interest in 3,727 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 17,000,786,423 shares compared with 16,707,836,595 shares in 3,714 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of April 30, 2026. The mid-May short interest represents 2.74 days compared with 2.84 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,640 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 3,909,823,972 shares at the end of the settlement date of May 15, 2026, compared with 3,896,400,254 shares in 1,644 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.28 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.15.
In summary, short interest in all 5,367 Nasdaq® securities totaled 20,910,610,395 shares at the May 15, 2026 settlement date, compared with 5,358 issues and 20,604,236,849 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.25 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.22 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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