Monthly roundup // FINRA short interest, settlements 2023-09-15 and 2023-09-29

Short interest in September 2023

At the September 29, 2023 settlement, FINRA’s file listed 19,209 securities with 36.01 billion shares held short, +4.0% against the August 31, 2023 month end. The largest single position among exchange-listed names was DNA at 233.5M shares. This is the measured record of one month, not a list of ideas: nothing here says what anyone should do with a security.

What this page reads. Our stored copy of FINRA’s consolidated short interest files for the settlements 2023-08-31 (19,336 rows), 2023-09-15 (19,297 rows) and 2023-09-29 (19,209 rows). The tables use the month-end settlement, 2023-09-29, and measure change against 2023-08-31. Read from the store 2026-11-03; short interest is published about seven business days after each settlement.

Largest short positions at 2023-09-29

By shares held short, among the 4,803 securities in the file with average daily volume of at least 100,000 shares that are not known to trade OTC (928 OTC rows left out). Shares, not percent of float: FINRA publishes no float, and a large company carries a large position.

#	Symbol	Issue	Venue	Short shares ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldcurrentShortPositionQuantity As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 Open the source document →	Avg daily vol ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldaverageDailyVolumeQuantity As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 Open the source document →	Days to cover ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares divided by average daily volume, both FINRA fields As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 HowFINRA's own days-to-cover field is floored at 1.00, so the ratio is computed from its two published operands instead. Open the source document →	Change ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares at this settlement against the previous month end As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 against settlement 2023-08-31 HowBoth positions are stored FINRA figures for the same symbol; the percent is (this minus that) over that. Open the source document →
1	DNA	Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc.	NYSE	233.5M	19.1M	12.2	+12.7%
2	LCID	Lucid Group, Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq NM	217.9M	27.4M	8.0	+7.9%
3	NKLA	name not recorded	not recorded	195.1M	108.6M	1.8	+29.8%
4	SIRI	SiriusXM Holdings Inc. Common	Nasdaq NM	169.6M	23.1M	7.4	+2.1%
5	PLTR	Palantir Technologies Inc. Cla	Nasdaq NM	167.5M	51.8M	3.2	+7.7%
6	LUMN	Lumen Technologies, Inc. Commo	Nasdaq NM	153.4M	14.7M	10.4	-0.3%
7	RIG	Transocean LTD.	NYSE	140.8M	14.0M	10.1	+2.2%
8	F	Ford Motor Company	NYSE	140.5M	46.7M	3.0	-6.8%
9	NIO	NIO Inc. American depositary s	NYSE	135.9M	66.6M	2.0	+33.9%
10	SPY	State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF	NYSE Arca	129.2M	88.9M	1.5	+1.9%
11	PLUG	Plug Power, Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq SC	127.8M	15.8M	8.1	+5.9%
12	MPW	name not recorded	not recorded	125.1M	15.8M	7.9	-2.7%
13	XLF	State Street Financial Select	NYSE Arca	123.7M	44.2M	2.8	+23.8%
14	TRP	TC Energy Corporation	NYSE	119.4M	4.1M	28.9	+298.3%
15	T	AT&T Inc.	NYSE	115.6M	32.7M	3.5	+0.4%
16	TLRY	Tilray Brands, Inc. Common Sto	Nasdaq NM	115.4M	25.8M	4.5	+29.4%
17	CCL	Carnival Corporation Ltd.	NYSE	113.1M	32.7M	3.5	+6.2%
18	SOFI	SoFi Technologies, Inc. Common	Nasdaq NM	112.1M	25.6M	4.4	+7.6%
19	HYG	iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Cor	NYSE Arca	99.2M	37.3M	2.7	+8.8%
20	IWM	iShares Russell 2000 ETF	NYSE Arca	96.9M	28.4M	3.4	+13.6%

Longest days to cover at 2023-09-29

Short shares divided by FINRA’s average daily volume, for names trading at least 300,000 shares a day. The floor is the one the short squeeze screener uses.

#	Symbol	Issue	Venue	Short shares ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldcurrentShortPositionQuantity As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 Open the source document →	Avg daily vol ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldaverageDailyVolumeQuantity As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 Open the source document →	Days to cover ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares divided by average daily volume, both FINRA fields As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 HowFINRA's own days-to-cover field is floored at 1.00, so the ratio is computed from its two published operands instead. Open the source document →	Change ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares at this settlement against the previous month end As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 against settlement 2023-08-31 HowBoth positions are stored FINRA figures for the same symbol; the percent is (this minus that) over that. Open the source document →
1	DOYU	DouYu International Holdings L	Nasdaq NM	13.9M	0.3M	44.8	+1.5%
2	LWLG	Lightwave Logic, Inc. Common S	Nasdaq SC	22.3M	0.6M	35.1	+4.1%
3	VUZI	Vuzix Corporation Common Stock	Nasdaq SC	11.8M	0.3M	34.3	-4.3%
4	HYZN	name not recorded	not recorded	11.2M	0.3M	33.9	-3.2%
5	CTXR	Citius Pharmaceuticals, Inc. C	Nasdaq SC	18.5M	0.6M	32.8	-5.6%
6	SWTX	name not recorded	not recorded	14.2M	0.5M	31.6	-2.1%
7	LYEL	Lyell Immunopharma, Inc. Commo	Nasdaq NM	21.2M	0.7M	30.9	-3.9%
8	DM	name not recorded	not recorded	69.9M	2.4M	28.9	+2.6%
9	TRP	TC Energy Corporation	NYSE	119.4M	4.1M	28.9	+298.3%
10	OMER	Omeros Corporation Common Stoc	Nasdaq NM	13.0M	0.5M	27.9	+7.1%
11	INFN	name not recorded	not recorded	43.9M	1.6M	27.5	+1.2%
12	MVIS	MicroVision, Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq SC	45.1M	1.7M	27.2	+6.3%
13	GCI	name not recorded	not recorded	15.0M	0.6M	24.9	+0.8%
14	EXPI	name not recorded	not recorded	19.4M	0.8M	24.7	+8.9%
15	ALLO	Allogene Therapeutics, Inc. Co	Nasdaq NM	34.1M	1.4M	23.5	+6.3%
16	ZOM	name not recorded	not recorded	63.8M	2.7M	23.3	-9.3%
17	SRG	Seritage Growth Properties Cla	NYSE	8.6M	0.4M	22.9	-1.9%
18	SDC	name not recorded	not recorded	29.5M	1.3M	22.5	+2.4%
19	BNS	Bank of Nova Scotia	NYSE	34.5M	1.6M	22.0	+120.5%
20	VRDN	Viridian Therapeutics, Inc. Co	Nasdaq SC	9.4M	0.4M	21.7	-0.2%

Largest increases from 2023-08-31 to 2023-09-29

Percent change in shares short, for positions of at least 1,000,000 shares at 2023-08-31 on names trading at least 300,000 shares a day. Of the 2,583 positions that clear both floors, 1,505 grew, 1,078 shrank and 0 did not change.

#	Symbol	Issue	Venue	Short shares ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldcurrentShortPositionQuantity As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 Open the source document →	Avg daily vol ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldaverageDailyVolumeQuantity As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 Open the source document →	Days to cover ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares divided by average daily volume, both FINRA fields As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 HowFINRA's own days-to-cover field is floored at 1.00, so the ratio is computed from its two published operands instead. Open the source document →	Change ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares at this settlement against the previous month end As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 against settlement 2023-08-31 HowBoth positions are stored FINRA figures for the same symbol; the percent is (this minus that) over that. Open the source document →
1	SCHF	Schwab International Equity ET	NYSE Arca	6.7M	3.8M	1.8	+549.5%
2	LIFW	name not recorded	not recorded	9.6M	145.4M	0.1	+502.8%
3	EPRT	Essential Properties Realty Tr	NYSE	9.1M	1.4M	6.8	+332.4%
4	SPTS	State Street SPDR Portfolio Sh	NYSE Arca	5.6M	4.4M	1.3	+315.9%
5	TRP	TC Energy Corporation	NYSE	119.4M	4.1M	28.9	+298.3%
6	NTST	NetSTREIT Corp.	NYSE	8.4M	0.7M	12.1	+281.9%
7	EWJ	iShares MSCI Japan ETF	NYSE Arca	15.1M	6.8M	2.2	+279.1%
8	CYBN	name not recorded	not recorded	10.6M	11.0M	1.0	+237.5%
9	NS	name not recorded	not recorded	3.9M	1.6M	2.4	+217.1%
10	INPX	name not recorded	not recorded	5.1M	30.6M	0.2	+214.9%
11	NVO	Novo-Nordisk A/S	NYSE	5.9M	4.0M	1.5	+203.7%
12	TV	Grupo Televisa S.A.	NYSE	7.8M	2.5M	3.1	+203.5%
13	APLE	Apple Hospitality REIT, Inc.	NYSE	13.0M	2.3M	5.7	+195.9%
14	VFS	VinFast Auto Ltd. Ordinary Sha	Nasdaq NM	4.1M	3.0M	1.4	+193.9%
15	ST	Sensata Technologies Holding p	NYSE	6.8M	1.9M	3.5	+170.6%

Largest decreases from 2023-08-31 to 2023-09-29

#	Symbol	Issue	Venue	Short shares ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldcurrentShortPositionQuantity As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 Open the source document →	Avg daily vol ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldaverageDailyVolumeQuantity As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 Open the source document →	Days to cover ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares divided by average daily volume, both FINRA fields As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 HowFINRA's own days-to-cover field is floored at 1.00, so the ratio is computed from its two published operands instead. Open the source document →	Change ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares at this settlement against the previous month end As ofsettlement 2023-09-29 against settlement 2023-08-31 HowBoth positions are stored FINRA figures for the same symbol; the percent is (this minus that) over that. Open the source document →
1	STIP	iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF	NYSE Arca	0.0M	0.6M	0.1	-96.5%
2	SUB	iShares Short-Term National Mu	NYSE Arca	0.1M	0.6M	0.1	-96.3%
3	WE	name not recorded	not recorded	4.2M	1.6M	2.6	-95.4%
4	IEMG	iShares Core MSCI Emerging Mar	NYSE Arca	1.1M	12.7M	0.1	-93.8%
5	FTSM	First Trust Exchange-Traded Fu	Nasdaq NM	0.2M	1.0M	0.1	-91.7%
6	EJH	E-Home Household Service Holdi	Nasdaq SC	0.3M	1.5M	0.2	-90.5%
7	IVOL	Quadratic Interest Rate Volati	NYSE Arca	0.2M	0.5M	0.3	-90.0%
8	TFI	State Street SPDR Nuveen ICE M	NYSE Arca	0.2M	1.4M	0.2	-89.2%
9	CBD	name not recorded	not recorded	0.5M	0.6M	0.8	-87.5%
10	JBI	Janus International Group, Inc	NYSE	2.2M	1.5M	1.5	-86.5%
11	PDBC	Invesco Actively Managed Exch-	Nasdaq NM	0.4M	4.1M	0.1	-86.2%
12	EUFN	iShares MSCI Europe Financials	Nasdaq NM	1.6M	1.2M	1.4	-84.1%
13	EMLC	VanEck J. P. Morgan EM Local C	NYSE Arca	3.0M	1.6M	1.9	-80.1%
14	SU	Suncor Energy, Inc.	NYSE	20.6M	5.7M	3.6	-78.2%
15	FNDF	Schwab Fundamental Internation	NYSE Arca	0.4M	0.8M	0.4	-78.0%

How to read a month of short interest

A short position is a count of borrowed shares sold and not yet bought back, reported by brokers twice a month. A large count can be a hedge against a convertible bond, an index arbitrage leg or a pair trade, so the tables show size and change, never intent. Days to cover says how many average sessions of volume the position equals; it is a ratio, not a forecast of a squeeze.

The change tables compare share counts, so a corporate action moves them as surely as trading does. A reverse split shrinks a position without anyone buying shares back, and a spin-off or merger can add one overnight. Before reading a large change as a decision by short sellers, check the company’s filings for the same weeks.

Names and venues come from the FINRA rows themselves. Rows stored before August 2026 carry neither, so they are read from the newest stored row for the same symbol; where no such row exists the table says the venue is not recorded instead of guessing it.

FINRA is the owner and source of this short interest and short sale volume data. Free on every plan; not for redistribution.

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