Monthly roundup // FINRA short interest, settlements 2024-08-15 and 2024-08-30

Short interest in August 2024

At the August 30, 2024 settlement, FINRA’s file listed 19,514 securities with 37.92 billion shares held short, +1.3% against the July 31, 2024 month end. The largest single position among exchange-listed names was NVDA at 260.9M 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 2024-07-31 (19,527 rows), 2024-08-15 (19,530 rows) and 2024-08-30 (19,514 rows). The tables use the month-end settlement, 2024-08-30, and measure change against 2024-07-31. Read from the store 2026-11-03; short interest is published about seven business days after each settlement.

Largest short positions at 2024-08-30

By shares held short, among the 4,879 securities in the file with average daily volume of at least 100,000 shares that are not known to trade OTC (926 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 2024-08-30 Open the source document →	Avg daily vol ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldaverageDailyVolumeQuantity As ofsettlement 2024-08-30 Open the source document →	Days to cover ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares divided by average daily volume, both FINRA fields As ofsettlement 2024-08-30 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 2024-08-30 against settlement 2024-07-31 HowBoth positions are stored FINRA figures for the same symbol; the percent is (this minus that) over that. Open the source document →
1	NVDA	NVIDIA Corporation Common Stoc	Nasdaq NM	260.9M	340.5M	0.8	-5.2%
2	LCID	Lucid Group, Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq NM	250.9M	40.5M	6.2	-1.1%
3	PLUG	Plug Power, Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq SC	249.8M	29.4M	8.5	+11.2%
4	MPW	name not recorded	not recorded	236.7M	9.6M	24.8	+8.5%
5	NIO	NIO Inc. American depositary s	NYSE	194.1M	36.2M	5.4	+1.4%
6	SOFI	SoFi Technologies, Inc. Common	Nasdaq NM	189.5M	41.2M	4.6	+4.4%
7	RIG	Transocean LTD.	NYSE	159.1M	15.8M	10.1	-1.5%
8	AAPL	Apple Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq NM	135.0M	39.9M	3.4	+14.7%
9	SIRI	SiriusXM Holdings Inc. Common	Nasdaq NM	134.9M	18.5M	7.3	-3.6%
10	FCEL	FuelCell Energy, Inc. Common S	Nasdaq NM	129.8M	25.5M	5.1	+2.0%
11	T	AT&T Inc.	NYSE	122.3M	21.7M	5.7	+21.1%
12	RIVN	Rivian Automotive, Inc. Class	Nasdaq NM	115.3M	26.3M	4.4	-3.4%
13	WBD	Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. S	Nasdaq NM	114.4M	29.4M	3.9	-0.5%
14	CNQ	Canadian Natural Resources Lim	NYSE	111.5M	4.2M	26.7	+329.2%
15	INTC	Intel Corporation Common Stock	Nasdaq NM	108.2M	72.5M	1.5	+18.7%
16	CHPT	ChargePoint Holdings, Inc.	NYSE	105.8M	8.8M	12.0	-2.1%
17	TELL	name not recorded	not recorded	101.6M	24.2M	4.2	+8.1%
18	TLRY	Tilray Brands, Inc. Common Sto	Nasdaq NM	101.6M	19.6M	5.2	-6.3%
19	XLF	State Street Financial Select	NYSE Arca	98.4M	25.4M	3.9	+3.0%
20	AUR	Aurora Innovation, Inc. Class	Nasdaq NM	98.1M	7.2M	13.5	-2.9%

Longest days to cover at 2024-08-30

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 2024-08-30 Open the source document →	Avg daily vol ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldaverageDailyVolumeQuantity As ofsettlement 2024-08-30 Open the source document →	Days to cover ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares divided by average daily volume, both FINRA fields As ofsettlement 2024-08-30 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 2024-08-30 against settlement 2024-07-31 HowBoth positions are stored FINRA figures for the same symbol; the percent is (this minus that) over that. Open the source document →
1	MVIS	MicroVision, Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq SC	55.7M	1.0M	53.6	+3.2%
2	CORT	Corcept Therapeutics Incorpora	Nasdaq SC	22.1M	0.5M	45.7	-0.8%
3	LCTX	Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc	NYSE American	15.8M	0.4M	44.2	+8.7%
4	KPTI	Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. C	Nasdaq NM	18.5M	0.4M	43.5	+0.8%
5	NRGV	Energy Vault Holdings, Inc.	NYSE	15.0M	0.4M	42.8	+4.9%
6	LWLG	Lightwave Logic, Inc. Common S	Nasdaq SC	21.1M	0.5M	41.6	+5.8%
7	PCT	PureCycle Technologies, Inc. C	Nasdaq SC	46.6M	1.3M	37.2	+12.7%
8	PRME	Prime Medicine, Inc. Common St	Nasdaq NM	16.3M	0.4M	36.9	+9.1%
9	ORIC	Oric Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Com	Nasdaq NM	12.7M	0.3M	36.7	+6.3%
10	VERU	Veru Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq SC	13.1M	0.4M	36.6	-1.8%
11	SENS	Senseonics Holdings, Inc. Comm	Nasdaq NM	43.7M	1.3M	34.9	+1.9%
12	IMNM	Immunome, Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq SC	13.3M	0.4M	33.5	-3.6%
13	OPK	OPKO Health, Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq NM	97.5M	2.9M	33.3	+11.7%
14	AVXL	Anavex Life Sciences Corp. Com	Nasdaq NM	19.4M	0.6M	33.2	-2.5%
15	NMRA	Neumora Therapeutics, Inc. Com	Nasdaq NM	10.0M	0.3M	32.0	+9.1%
16	SRRK	Scholar Rock Holding Corporati	Nasdaq NM	15.9M	0.5M	31.8	+10.2%
17	INVA	Innoviva, Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq NM	11.7M	0.4M	31.1	+4.0%
18	KURA	Kura Oncology, Inc. Common Sto	Nasdaq NM	10.8M	0.3M	31.1	+16.6%
19	BOWL	name not recorded	not recorded	12.1M	0.4M	31.0	-8.4%
20	BCE	BCE, Inc.	NYSE	47.1M	1.5M	30.9	+24.9%

Largest increases from 2024-07-31 to 2024-08-30

Percent change in shares short, for positions of at least 1,000,000 shares at 2024-07-31 on names trading at least 300,000 shares a day. Of the 2,566 positions that clear both floors, 1,349 grew, 1,217 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 2024-08-30 Open the source document →	Avg daily vol ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldaverageDailyVolumeQuantity As ofsettlement 2024-08-30 Open the source document →	Days to cover ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares divided by average daily volume, both FINRA fields As ofsettlement 2024-08-30 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 2024-08-30 against settlement 2024-07-31 HowBoth positions are stored FINRA figures for the same symbol; the percent is (this minus that) over that. Open the source document →
1	MSTR	Strategy Inc Common Stock Clas	Nasdaq NM	26.6M	10.2M	2.6	+958.9%
2	SU	Suncor Energy, Inc.	NYSE	78.6M	3.6M	22.1	+591.9%
3	APTV	Aptiv PLC	NYSE	35.7M	2.8M	12.9	+349.1%
4	CNQ	Canadian Natural Resources Lim	NYSE	111.5M	4.2M	26.7	+329.2%
5	TSLY	YieldMax TSLA Option Income St	NYSE Arca	3.7M	0.8M	4.9	+270.1%
6	MFC	Manulife Financial Corp.	NYSE	36.2M	3.1M	11.7	+205.4%
7	BTDR	Bitdeer Technologies Group Cla	Nasdaq SC	10.0M	3.2M	3.1	+192.6%
8	RNST	Renasant Corporation	NYSE	3.3M	0.6M	5.9	+170.9%
9	AILE	name not recorded	not recorded	3.1M	1.6M	2.0	+154.9%
10	AAN	name not recorded	not recorded	3.5M	0.6M	6.3	+154.5%
11	PPC	Pilgrim's Pride Corporation Co	Nasdaq NM	3.4M	0.9M	3.9	+143.1%
12	MULN	name not recorded	not recorded	10.8M	106.9M	0.1	+137.7%
13	SWI	name not recorded	not recorded	2.6M	0.6M	4.7	+136.9%
14	MAXN	name not recorded	not recorded	58.4M	110.8M	0.5	+130.4%
15	LINE	Lineage, Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq NM	2.3M	0.6M	4.0	+122.6%

Largest decreases from 2024-07-31 to 2024-08-30

#	Symbol	Issue	Venue	Short shares ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldcurrentShortPositionQuantity As ofsettlement 2024-08-30 Open the source document →	Avg daily vol ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldaverageDailyVolumeQuantity As ofsettlement 2024-08-30 Open the source document →	Days to cover ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares divided by average daily volume, both FINRA fields As ofsettlement 2024-08-30 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 2024-08-30 against settlement 2024-07-31 HowBoth positions are stored FINRA figures for the same symbol; the percent is (this minus that) over that. Open the source document →
1	XSOE	WisdomTree Emerging Markets ex	NYSE Arca	0.0M	0.6M	0.0	-99.5%
2	DNA	Ginkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc.	NYSE	7.1M	2.1M	3.5	-94.2%
3	JTAI	Jet.AI Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq SC	0.2M	2.5M	0.1	-92.4%
4	GSG	iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-In	NYSE Arca	0.3M	0.4M	0.7	-92.4%
5	FFIE	name not recorded	not recorded	3.8M	27.5M	0.1	-92.0%
6	IMNN	Imunon, Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq SC	0.4M	0.9M	0.4	-86.0%
7	RNAZ	TransCode Therapeutics, Inc. C	Nasdaq SC	0.3M	0.6M	0.5	-83.0%
8	CNSP	CNS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Comm	Nasdaq SC	0.2M	4.0M	0.1	-81.8%
9	QXO	QXO, Inc.	NYSE	0.5M	3.5M	0.2	-80.7%
10	IAGG	iShares Core International Agg	Cboe BZX	0.5M	0.3M	1.5	-79.1%
11	SJNK	State Street SPDR Bloomberg Sh	NYSE Arca	0.8M	2.7M	0.3	-74.9%
12	FLOT	iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF	Cboe BZX	0.6M	1.1M	0.5	-73.6%
13	BMO	Bank of Montreal	NYSE	4.6M	1.4M	3.3	-73.5%
14	VZLA	Vizsla Silver Corp.	NYSE American	0.7M	1.0M	0.7	-73.1%
15	VMBS	Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Secur	Nasdaq NM	0.8M	1.3M	0.6	-72.6%

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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