21,047,423 shares short / 1,749,319,009 shares outstanding (share count from our filing-derived snapshot).
“Low” describes how crowded the short position is, not where the stock goes next. Percent of shares outstanding, not percent of float; where filings allow it, the float version appears below as a floor.
As of the 2026-09-30 settlement, which is 22 days ago. FINRA publishes twice a month on the seventh business day after settlement, so this cycle was published around 2026-10-09 and the next is expected around 2026-10-26. No free source anywhere has anything fresher, including sites that display this number next to a live price.
Shares sold short
21,047,423⊙
EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceFINRA consolidated short interest
FieldcurrentShortPositionQuantity
As of2026-09-30 settlement
HowFile shrt20260930.csv in FINRA's catalog (posted ~7 business days after settlement).
Average daily volume (FINRA, the days-to-cover denominator)
10,454,600
Exchange
NYSE
Reg SHO threshold listPersistent settlement failures under Reg SHO Rule 203. A delivery-failure list, not a “naked shorting” list.
Not on the list (2026-10-21)
Short interest, % of shares outstandingPercent of shares outstanding. Not percent of float, and the two are not the same number.
1.20%
Shares outstandingfrom filings
1,749,319,009
% owned by insidersFiled direct holdings only, per latest Form 4s; indirect and unfiled stakes excluded
0.1%1,522,694 shares, 17 insiders
Percent of float // a floor, from filings
Short interest is at least 1.20% of C’s float
Basis, all filed: 1,522,694 shares held directly by 17 insiders per their latest Form 4 filings (2026-02-24 to 2026-10-02), subtracted from 1,749,319,009 shares outstanding. Real float is smaller still, because indirect holdings, 5%-plus outside holders and insiders who have not filed within 12 months are all left out on purpose, so the true percentage is higher than this floor, never lower. This is the one version of a float number that needs no licensed estimate.
Short interest history
76 settlements on record, oldest 2023-08-15. Biweekly points, from FINRA’s own archive.
Settlement
Shares short
Change
% of shares out
Days to cover
Close, USD
Value short, USD
2026-09-30
21,047,423
-14.7%
n/a
2.01
129.48
2.73B
2026-09-15
24,673,143
-5.8%
n/a
2.85
136.17
3.36B
2026-08-31
26,196,181
-12.4%
n/a
2.96
131.62
3.45B
2026-08-14
29,917,611
+21.2%
n/a
3.48
139.33
4.17B
2026-07-31
24,686,076
-14.2%
n/a
2.14
132.45
3.27B
2026-07-15
28,765,148
+5.7%
n/a
2.05
134.89
3.88B
2026-06-30
27,205,962
-16.3%
n/a
1.70
139.96
3.81B
2026-06-15
32,496,234
+6.4%
n/a
2.64
141.21
4.59B
2026-05-29
30,533,659
+1.8%
n/a
3.17
125.90
3.84B
2026-05-15
29,989,465
+3.1%
n/a
2.47
123.42
3.70B
2026-04-30
29,089,360
+0.4%
n/a
2.90
127.98
3.72B
2026-04-15
28,970,752
-4.1%
n/a
2.31
131.69
3.82B
Show the other 64 settlements, back to 2023-08-15
Settlement
Shares short
Change
% of shares out
Days to cover
Close, USD
Value short, USD
2026-03-31
30,205,847
+3.4%
n/a
1.81
113.41
3.43B
2026-03-13
29,225,873
+1.9%
n/a
1.85
105.69
3.09B
2026-02-27
28,693,694
+2.6%
n/a
1.91
110.19
3.16B
2026-02-13
27,973,195
+8.6%
n/a
1.89
110.86
3.10B
2026-01-30
25,767,017
+2.4%
n/a
1.88
115.71
2.98B
2026-01-15
25,171,239
-12.7%
n/a
1.57
117.46
2.96B
2025-12-31
28,831,165
-0.8%
n/a
1.89
116.69
3.36B
2025-12-15
29,060,069
+21.7%
n/a
2.35
112.80
3.28B
2025-11-28
23,877,077
-10.0%
n/a
2.09
103.60
2.47B
2025-11-14
26,532,968
-9.9%
n/a
2.29
100.30
2.66B
2025-10-31
29,459,156
+0.3%
n/a
2.45
101.23
2.98B
2025-10-15
29,370,584
-3.6%
n/a
1.94
99.78
2.93B
2025-09-30
30,477,845
-15.9%
n/a
2.18
101.50
3.09B
2025-09-15
36,260,537
-2.3%
n/a
2.70
99.79
3.62B
2025-08-29
37,121,462
-8.3%
n/a
3.05
96.57
3.58B
2025-08-15
40,492,586
+10.8%
n/a
2.76
93.69
3.79B
2025-07-31
36,549,061
+3.4%
n/a
2.15
93.70
3.42B
2025-07-15
35,362,145
+11.6%
n/a
2.26
90.72
3.21B
2025-06-30
31,684,491
-1.6%
n/a
2.07
85.12
2.70B
2025-06-13
32,211,795
+3.2%
n/a
3.12
76.36
2.46B
2025-05-30
31,209,558
-11.6%
n/a
2.57
75.32
2.35B
2025-05-15
35,308,872
-4.1%
n/a
3.01
75.96
2.68B
2025-04-30
36,832,211
+6.7%
n/a
2.50
68.38
2.52B
2025-04-15
34,515,052
-11.8%
n/a
1.17
64.33
2.22B
2025-03-31
39,135,754
+3.0%
n/a
2.74
70.99
2.78B
2025-03-14
37,988,851
+11.5%
n/a
1.92
68.78
2.61B
2025-02-28
34,068,788
-3.9%
n/a
2.40
79.95
2.72B
2025-02-14
35,463,721
+8.1%
n/a
2.66
84.61
3.00B
2025-01-31
32,814,828
-15.3%
n/a
2.08
81.43
2.67B
2025-01-15
38,723,562
+6.3%
n/a
2.09
78.27
3.03B
2024-12-31
36,434,036
+0.8%
n/a
3.19
70.39
2.56B
2024-12-13
36,139,914
+9.8%
n/a
2.68
71.01
2.57B
2024-11-29
32,899,831
-1.9%
n/a
2.60
70.87
2.33B
2024-11-15
33,547,783
+10.0%
n/a
1.99
68.76
2.31B
2024-10-31
30,500,997
-2.4%
n/a
2.39
64.17
1.96B
2024-10-15
31,251,559
-12.5%
n/a
2.51
62.64
1.96B
2024-09-30
35,735,324
-8.7%
n/a
2.75
62.60
2.24B
2024-09-13
39,159,384
+3.5%
n/a
2.73
57.67
2.26B
2024-08-30
37,846,882
+0.2%
n/a
3.91
62.64
2.37B
2024-08-15
37,753,899
+29.6%
n/a
2.18
60.52
2.28B
2024-07-31
29,125,825
+1.1%
n/a
2.33
64.88
1.89B
2024-07-15
28,822,099
-0.8%
n/a
2.00
65.14
1.88B
2024-06-28
29,051,138
-7.1%
n/a
2.03
n/a
n/a
2024-06-14
31,282,001
+7.5%
n/a
2.87
n/a
n/a
2024-05-31
29,091,392
+2.4%
n/a
2.76
n/a
n/a
2024-05-15
28,421,884
+5.2%
n/a
2.71
n/a
n/a
2024-04-30
27,007,224
+4.0%
n/a
1.87
n/a
n/a
2024-04-15
25,959,581
-12.9%
n/a
1.59
n/a
n/a
2024-03-28
29,791,538
+5.0%
n/a
1.82
n/a
n/a
2024-03-15
28,362,319
+15.6%
n/a
1.83
n/a
n/a
2024-02-29
24,544,761
-7.2%
n/a
1.80
n/a
n/a
2024-02-15
26,441,463
+8.4%
n/a
1.62
n/a
n/a
2024-01-31
24,389,871
-22.6%
n/a
1.26
n/a
n/a
2024-01-12
31,521,520
+27.1%
n/a
1.34
n/a
n/a
2023-12-29
24,810,139
-13.5%
n/a
1.71
n/a
n/a
2023-12-15
28,678,403
-8.0%
n/a
1.20
n/a
n/a
2023-11-30
31,185,497
-5.7%
n/a
2.25
n/a
n/a
2023-11-15
33,074,145
+32.1%
n/a
1.83
n/a
n/a
2023-10-31
25,037,254
-7.3%
n/a
1.22
n/a
n/a
2023-10-13
27,008,141
+8.0%
n/a
1.41
n/a
n/a
2023-09-29
25,009,659
-6.3%
n/a
1.79
n/a
n/a
2023-09-15
26,697,113
+11.9%
n/a
1.49
n/a
n/a
2023-08-31
23,850,493
-1.7%
n/a
1.51
n/a
n/a
2023-08-15
24,259,086
n/a
n/a
1.62
n/a
n/a
Change is against the settlement before it, and is left out where one is missing from the archive. Percent of shares outstanding divides by the filed share count dated nearest each settlement, within 200 days, so it moves when the share count does; it is not percent of float. Close and value short (shares short times that day’s close, both as traded) come from our stored daily bars, which begin 2024-07-01; earlier settlements show none rather than a figure from another source. Nothing here is split-adjusted, so a split appears as the step it was.
Different measurement // daily, and not a position
Daily short volume
This is not the number above. Short interest is the position still held short, reported twice a month. Short volume is the share of a single day’s trading that was marked as a sell-short order, published daily. Most of it is market makers hedging and closing within the same session, so a stock printing a high figure here is not that percentage sold short.
Latest session (2026-10-22)
37.5%
Average, last 10 sessions
35.8%
2026-10-2237.5%
2026-10-2134.8%
2026-10-2035.0%
2026-10-1938.7%
2026-10-1639.8%
2026-10-1536.0%
2026-10-1440.3%
2026-10-1337.3%
2026-10-1228.6%
2026-10-0930.2%
FINRA Reg SHO consolidated daily file. Sessions with no row for C are omitted rather than shown as zero.
Price context // daily bars, not short data
Where the price sits
Session of 2026-10-21, from 276 sessions of daily bars. These are price figures, not short figures, and they update daily rather than twice a month.
Close
$123.85
Volume, latest session
6,160,200
Volume vs averageAgainst its own 50-session average of 9,327,785, same series on both sides
0.66x
% from 52-week high ($147.96)
-16.3%
% from 52-week low ($95.00)
+30.4%
52-week performance
+28.6%
% from 50-day average ($131.91)
-6.1%
% from 200-day average ($126.43)
-2.0%
RSI, 14-dayWilder’s construction, so it matches what charting platforms print
40.3
Why there is no “% of float” here
Percent of float is the number the paid trackers lead with, and it is the one number in this category that cannot be published honestly for free. There is no free float share count: the SEC’s XBRL concept for float does not exist, and the closest one, public float, is measured in dollars and is filed once a year with the annual report. For Apple it currently reads as of March 2025, sixteen months ago.
So a free site showing percent of float is doing one of two things: quietly substituting shares outstanding, which for a heavily insider-held small company is a wildly different number, or republishing a commercial estimate it licensed. We publish the percentage that filed data supports, label it as percent of shares outstanding, and where insider Form 4 filings allow it we publish percent of float as an explicit floor: subtracting only filed direct insider holdings from shares outstanding gives a ceiling on float, so the division gives a number the true percentage can only exceed. What we will not do is print a bare “% of float” built on someone else’s estimate. Where a figure is measured, this site says what it was measured against. Read the methodology.
What days to cover means
Open short interest divided by average daily trading volume: roughly how many full sessions of normal volume it would take for every short position to be bought back. FINRA computes it per security at each settlement and we pass their figure through. This matters more than it sounds, because sites that compute their own pick their own volume window and rarely say which, so the same stock shows materially different values depending on where you look.
High short interest and high days to cover describe fuel, not ignition. They say a crowded position exists; they say nothing about whether it unwinds, and heavily shorted stocks frequently keep falling. Educational information, not investment advice.
FINRA is the owner and source of this short interest and short sale volume data. Free on every plan; not for redistribution.
C short interest FAQ
How old is this C short interest figure?
It is the 2026-09-30 settlement, which is 22 days ago. FINRA collects short interest twice a month and publishes on the seventh business day after each settlement date, so this was published around 2026-10-09 and the next cycle is expected around 2026-10-26. There is no fresher short interest available anywhere for free, including from tools that display it next to a live price.
Why does this show percent of shares outstanding rather than percent of float?
Because float share counts are not published by any free source. The SEC XBRL concept for float does not exist, and the nearest one is measured in dollars and comes only from the annual report. Every free site showing a float percentage is republishing a commercial estimate. We publish the percentage we can compute from filed data and label it for what it is, rather than passing shares outstanding off as float.
Where does days to cover come from?
Shares short divided by average daily volume, using FINRA’s own two published figures. We do not use FINRA’s own days-to-cover field, because it is floored at 1.00: across the current file, 7,869 securities, over a third of the market, are published at exactly 1.00 and nearly all of them are genuinely below it. One stock with a true ratio of 0.03 is published as 1.00. Sites that instead invent their own average-volume window produce a different problem, which is why the operands here are both FINRA’s.
Is high short interest a buy signal?
No. High short interest is frequently the market pricing real problems, and many heavily shorted stocks keep falling. This page measures positioning. It makes no recommendation.