Monthly roundup // FINRA short interest, settlements 2026-05-15 and 2026-05-29

Short interest in May 2026

At the May 29, 2026 settlement, FINRA’s file listed 21,989 securities with 54.14 billion shares held short, +3.4% against the April 30, 2026 month end. The largest single position among exchange-listed names was PLUG at 347.3M 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 2026-04-30 (21,822 rows), 2026-05-15 (21,896 rows) and 2026-05-29 (21,989 rows). The tables use the month-end settlement, 2026-05-29, and measure change against 2026-04-30. Read from the store 2026-11-03; short interest is published about seven business days after each settlement.

Largest short positions at 2026-05-29

By shares held short, among the 6,024 securities in the file with average daily volume of at least 100,000 shares that are not known to trade OTC (1,271 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 2026-05-29 Open the source document →	Avg daily vol ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldaverageDailyVolumeQuantity As ofsettlement 2026-05-29 Open the source document →	Days to cover ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares divided by average daily volume, both FINRA fields As ofsettlement 2026-05-29 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 2026-05-29 against settlement 2026-04-30 HowBoth positions are stored FINRA figures for the same symbol; the percent is (this minus that) over that. Open the source document →
1	PLUG	Plug Power, Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq SC	347.3M	83.9M	4.1	+1.1%
2	NVDA	NVIDIA Corporation Common Stoc	Nasdaq NM	284.7M	180.1M	1.6	+0.6%
3	GRAB	Grab Holdings Limited Class A	Nasdaq NM	250.0M	44.5M	5.6	+17.8%
4	RIG	Transocean LTD.	NYSE	211.5M	35.9M	5.9	+0.5%
5	SOFI	SoFi Technologies, Inc. Common	Nasdaq NM	186.1M	71.2M	2.6	+15.7%
6	AUR	Aurora Innovation, Inc. Class	Nasdaq NM	176.0M	28.7M	6.1	-7.1%
7	RXRX	Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc	Nasdaq NM	164.3M	20.5M	8.0	-4.1%
8	INFY	Infosys Limited American Depos	NYSE	163.3M	23.3M	7.0	+3.5%
9	PFE	Pfizer Inc.	NYSE	162.7M	32.8M	5.0	+15.9%
10	ONDS	Ondas Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq SC	161.1M	94.5M	1.7	-2.0%
11	AAPL	Apple Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq NM	155.9M	46.1M	3.4	+15.7%
12	SOUN	SoundHound AI, Inc Class A Com	Nasdaq NM	150.3M	24.8M	6.1	-4.3%
13	RIVN	Rivian Automotive, Inc. Class	Nasdaq NM	144.9M	32.6M	4.4	+1.8%
14	NIO	NIO Inc. American depositary s	NYSE	144.5M	56.0M	2.6	+7.7%
15	XLF	State Street Financial Select	NYSE Arca	143.9M	34.7M	4.1	+38.5%
16	NU	Nu Holdings Ltd.	NYSE	143.7M	57.8M	2.5	+1.6%
17	BYND	Beyond Meat, Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq NM	141.5M	31.2M	4.5	+12.3%
18	OWL	Blue Owl Capital Inc.	NYSE	139.1M	19.2M	7.3	+15.3%
19	OPEN	Opendoor Technologies Inc Comm	Nasdaq NM	138.8M	36.7M	3.8	+9.6%
20	INTC	Intel Corporation Common Stock	Nasdaq NM	135.0M	124.9M	1.1	-2.8%

Longest days to cover at 2026-05-29

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 2026-05-29 Open the source document →	Avg daily vol ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldaverageDailyVolumeQuantity As ofsettlement 2026-05-29 Open the source document →	Days to cover ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares divided by average daily volume, both FINRA fields As ofsettlement 2026-05-29 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 2026-05-29 against settlement 2026-04-30 HowBoth positions are stored FINRA figures for the same symbol; the percent is (this minus that) over that. Open the source document →
1	MPT	Medical Properties Trust, Inc.	NYSE	133.2M	4.7M	28.4	-1.4%
2	LCTX	Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc	NYSE American	26.1M	1.0M	25.0	+1.9%
3	IMO	Imperial Oil Limited	NYSE American	16.5M	0.7M	24.8	+4.0%
4	IKT	Inhibikase Therapeutics, Inc.	Nasdaq SC	18.5M	0.8M	24.6	+3.0%
5	AVIR	Atea Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Com	Nasdaq NM	7.5M	0.3M	23.9	+0.5%
6	HRTX	Heron Therapeutics, Inc. Commo	Nasdaq SC	40.2M	1.7M	23.7	-1.7%
7	CHRS	Coherus Oncology, Inc. Common	Nasdaq NM	27.9M	1.2M	23.7	+0.2%
8	NCMI	National CineMedia, Inc. Commo	Nasdaq NM	7.0M	0.3M	22.8	+3.1%
9	BCAX	Bicara Therapeutics Inc. Commo	Nasdaq NM	10.1M	0.4M	22.5	+13.3%
10	FIP	FTAI Infrastructure Inc. Commo	Nasdaq NM	18.1M	0.8M	22.3	+7.5%
11	CLM	Cornerstone Strategic Investme	NYSE American	30.0M	1.4M	22.2	+2.4%
12	SVRA	Savara Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq NM	30.2M	1.4M	21.8	+9.3%
13	JBGS	JBG SMITH Properties Common Sh	NYSE	9.4M	0.4M	21.6	-6.1%
14	TGTX	TG Therapeutics, Inc. Common S	Nasdaq SC	28.2M	1.3M	21.6	+4.3%
15	KYMR	Kymera Therapeutics, Inc. Comm	Nasdaq NM	10.1M	0.5M	20.6	+4.3%
16	NRDY	Nerdy Inc.	NYSE	8.4M	0.4M	20.3	-2.7%
17	FA	First Advantage Corporation Co	Nasdaq NM	13.1M	0.6M	20.3	-6.2%
18	NTST	NetSTREIT Corp.	NYSE	29.5M	1.5M	20.2	+2.1%
19	FULC	Fulcrum Therapeutics, Inc. Com	Nasdaq NM	8.0M	0.4M	19.8	+0.3%
20	GALT	Galectin Therapeutics Inc. Com	Nasdaq SC	7.7M	0.4M	19.7	+3.7%

Largest increases from 2026-04-30 to 2026-05-29

Percent change in shares short, for positions of at least 1,000,000 shares at 2026-04-30 on names trading at least 300,000 shares a day. Of the 3,237 positions that clear both floors, 1,877 grew, 1,360 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 2026-05-29 Open the source document →	Avg daily vol ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldaverageDailyVolumeQuantity As ofsettlement 2026-05-29 Open the source document →	Days to cover ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares divided by average daily volume, both FINRA fields As ofsettlement 2026-05-29 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 2026-05-29 against settlement 2026-04-30 HowBoth positions are stored FINRA figures for the same symbol; the percent is (this minus that) over that. Open the source document →
1	PPLT	abrdn Physical Platinum Shares	NYSE Arca	12.0M	1.4M	8.4	+946.7%
2	IUSB	iShares Trust iShares Core Uni	Nasdaq NM	38.4M	19.0M	2.0	+669.7%
3	SNGX	Soligenix, Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq SC	6.5M	42.5M	0.2	+537.6%
4	IONZ	Tidal Trust II Defiance Daily	Nasdaq NM	8.5M	22.8M	0.4	+527.1%
5	CNQ	Canadian Natural Resources Lim	NYSE	51.6M	6.9M	7.4	+423.2%
6	CVNA	Carvana Co.	NYSE	72.2M	11.1M	6.5	+420.6%
7	GNS	Genius Group Limited	NYSE American	23.1M	45.0M	0.5	+388.6%
8	SBS	COMPANHIA DE SANEAMENTO B SICO	NYSE	13.8M	5.0M	2.8	+383.6%
9	KBE	State Street SPDR S&P Bank ETF	NYSE Arca	15.9M	2.1M	7.6	+283.5%
10	IFRX	InflaRx N.V. Common Stock	Nasdaq NM	6.8M	1.0M	6.6	+243.6%
11	XOVR	EntrepreneurShares Series Trus	Nasdaq NM	3.9M	8.1M	0.5	+235.5%
12	AMPG	Amplitech Group, Inc. Common S	Nasdaq SC	4.1M	9.5M	0.4	+234.4%
13	CNI	Canadian National Railway	NYSE	7.3M	1.2M	6.2	+230.6%
14	CTRE	CareTrust REIT, Inc	NYSE	20.5M	2.9M	7.2	+184.3%
15	VMBS	Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Secur	Nasdaq NM	3.0M	1.5M	2.0	+183.9%

Largest decreases from 2026-04-30 to 2026-05-29

#	Symbol	Issue	Venue	Short shares ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldcurrentShortPositionQuantity As ofsettlement 2026-05-29 Open the source document →	Avg daily vol ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest, as stored by our ingest FieldaverageDailyVolumeQuantity As ofsettlement 2026-05-29 Open the source document →	Days to cover ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceShort shares divided by average daily volume, both FINRA fields As ofsettlement 2026-05-29 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 2026-05-29 against settlement 2026-04-30 HowBoth positions are stored FINRA figures for the same symbol; the percent is (this minus that) over that. Open the source document →
1	ESGE	iShares, Inc. iShares ESG Awar	Nasdaq NM	0.0M	1.3M	0.0	-97.8%
2	CRWG	Themes ETF Trust Leverage Shar	Nasdaq NM	0.3M	1.2M	0.3	-96.9%
3	FIGG	Themes ETF Trust Leverage Shar	Nasdaq NM	0.1M	0.3M	0.4	-96.8%
4	BMNG	Themes ETF Trust Leverage Shar	Nasdaq NM	0.5M	0.5M	1.0	-96.0%
5	NAKA	Nakamoto Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq NM	1.0M	0.6M	1.7	-95.6%
6	EFAV	iShares MSCI EAFE Min Vol Fact	Cboe BZX	0.1M	0.4M	0.1	-94.2%
7	IAGG	iShares Core International Agg	Cboe BZX	0.2M	7.4M	0.0	-93.6%
8	QBTX	Tradr 2X Long QBTS Daily ETF	Cboe BZX	0.1M	4.6M	0.0	-92.6%
9	DHY	UBS Asset Management High Yiel	NYSE American	0.2M	0.6M	0.4	-88.6%
10	CYCU	Cycurion, Inc. Common Stock	Nasdaq NM	0.1M	1.9M	0.1	-88.1%
11	SCHP	Schwab U.S. TIPS ETF	NYSE Arca	0.8M	4.4M	0.2	-87.0%
12	CANE	Teucrium Sugar Fund	NYSE Arca	0.2M	0.5M	0.4	-86.6%
13	ICSH	iShares Ultra Short Duration B	Cboe BZX	0.2M	1.3M	0.2	-85.7%
14	BNZI	Banzai International, Inc. Cla	Nasdaq SC	0.2M	1.1M	0.2	-85.1%
15	IEMG	iShares Core MSCI Emerging Mar	NYSE Arca	0.7M	19.1M	0.0	-85.0%

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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