Short interest // FINRA, biweekly, dated

CHKIF short interest

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China Southern Airlines Co Ltd

6,548,465shares sold short

No percentage is shown because no filed share count exists for CHKIF at SEC XBRL. A percentage of an unknown denominator is not a smaller version of the right answer.

As of the 2026-10-15 settlement, which is 25 days ago. FINRA publishes twice a month on the seventh business day after settlement, so this cycle was published around 2026-10-26 and the next is expected around 2026-11-10. No free source anywhere has anything fresher, including sites that display this number next to a live price.

Shares sold short6,548,465
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EVIDENCE — filed/published fact
SourceFINRA consolidated short interest
FieldcurrentShortPositionQuantity
As of2026-10-15 settlement
HowFile shrt20261015.csv in FINRA's catalog (posted ~7 business days after settlement).
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Prior settlement8,280,090
Change-20.9%
Days to coverShares short divided by average daily volume, both FINRA figures.1415.88
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INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic
SourceFINRA consolidated short interest
FieldcurrentShortPositionQuantity ÷ averageDailyVolumeQuantity
As of2026-10-15 settlement
HowComputed from FINRA’s two published operands. FINRA’s own daysToCoverQuantity field floors at 1.00 and is not used.
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Average daily volume (FINRA, the days-to-cover denominator)4,625
ExchangeOTC
Reg SHO threshold listPersistent settlement failures under Reg SHO Rule 203. A delivery-failure list, not a “naked shorting” list.no free publisher covers this venue
Short interest, % of shares outstandingPercent of shares outstanding. Not percent of float, and the two are not the same number.no filed share count held

We do not hold a filing-derived share count for CHKIF, so the percentage is not computed. A percentage of an unknown denominator is not a smaller version of the right answer, so nothing is shown in its place.

Short interest history

77 settlements on record, oldest 2023-08-15. Biweekly points, from FINRA’s own archive.

Dashed line at the 15 September 2026 settlement: FINRA began quoting every field of its short interest file. What it did to this history, and what we did

SettlementShares shortChange% of shares outDays to coverClose, USDValue short, USD
2026-10-156,548,465-20.9%no share count within 200 days1415.88no stored barsno close to value it
2026-09-308,280,090+112.4%no share count within 200 days230002.50no stored barsno close to value it
2026-09-153,898,434+750.4%no share count within 200 days119.91no stored barsno close to value it
2026-08-31458,434+128.9%no share count within 200 days1643.13no stored barsno close to value it
2026-08-14200,272+7.5%no share count within 200 days200272.00no stored barsno close to value it
2026-07-31186,272-94.0%no share count within 200 daysnot in the FINRA fileno stored barsno close to value it
2026-07-153,106,654-16.9%no share count within 200 days341.39no stored barsno close to value it
2026-06-303,737,639+1.6%no share count within 200 days7430.69no stored barsno close to value it
2026-06-153,679,759-0.2%no share count within 200 days899.48no stored barsno close to value it
2026-05-293,686,269+0.2%no share count within 200 days1402.69no stored barsno close to value it
2026-05-153,679,649-0.3%no share count within 200 days7947.41no stored barsno close to value it
2026-04-303,689,939+979.7%no share count within 200 days982.94no stored barsno close to value it
Show the other 65 settlements, back to 2023-08-15
SettlementShares shortChange% of shares outDays to coverClose, USDValue short, USD
2026-04-15341,769+205.9%no share count within 200 days854.42no stored barsno close to value it
2026-03-31111,739-94.2%no share count within 200 days39.44no stored barsno close to value it
2026-03-131,915,659-59.6%no share count within 200 days3187.45no stored barsno close to value it
2026-02-274,744,342+4.4%no share count within 200 days1187.57no stored barsno close to value it
2026-02-134,546,020-9.9%no share count within 200 days487.25no stored barsno close to value it
2026-01-305,044,000+30.7%no share count within 200 days672.53no stored barsno close to value it
2026-01-153,858,978+7.7%no share count within 200 days15133.25no stored barsno close to value it
2025-12-313,583,134-2.3%no share count within 200 days5633.86no stored barsno close to value it
2025-12-153,667,056-3.3%no share count within 200 days3.21no stored barsno close to value it
2025-11-283,791,055-13.0%no share count within 200 days46.79no stored barsno close to value it
2025-11-144,355,055-10.8%no share count within 200 days415.76no stored barsno close to value it
2025-10-314,884,509+74.7%no share count within 200 days372.21no stored barsno close to value it
2025-10-152,795,999+4.6%no share count within 200 days488.21no stored barsno close to value it
2025-09-302,674,000+71.2%no share count within 200 days193.52no stored barsno close to value it
2025-09-151,562,000+68.7%no share count within 200 days1131.88no stored barsno close to value it
2025-08-29926,000+0.0%no share count within 200 days380.44no stored barsno close to value it
2025-08-15926,000+0.0%no share count within 200 days146.15no stored barsno close to value it
2025-07-31926,000-1.7%no share count within 200 days284.92no stored barsno close to value it
2025-07-15942,000+53.9%no share count within 200 days748.21no stored barsno close to value it
2025-06-30612,000+0.0%no share count within 200 days37.09no stored barsno close to value it
2025-06-13612,000+0.0%no share count within 200 days67.27no stored barsno close to value it
2025-05-30612,000-0.0%no share count within 200 days276.80no stored barsno close to value it
2025-05-15612,183+20.5%no share count within 200 days868.34no stored barsno close to value it
2025-04-30508,183+694.0%no share count within 200 days54.13no stored barsno close to value it
2025-04-1564,000+357.1%no share count within 200 days7.04no stored barsno close to value it
2025-03-3114,000+16.7%no share count within 200 days20.80no stored barsno close to value it
2025-03-1412,000-98.4%no share count within 200 days545.45no stored barsno close to value it
2025-02-28738,000+0.0%no share count within 200 days8292.13no stored barsno close to value it
2025-02-14738,000+13.2%no share count within 200 days16.97no stored barsno close to value it
2025-01-31652,000+5333.3%no share count within 200 days717.27no stored barsno close to value it
2025-01-1512,000-14.3%no share count within 200 days2.38no stored barsno close to value it
2024-12-3114,000+16.7%no share count within 200 days1.99no stored barsno close to value it
2024-12-1312,000-91.3%no share count within 200 days0.59no stored barsno close to value it
2024-11-29138,000+1050.0%no share count within 200 days5.94no stored barsno close to value it
2024-11-1512,000+0.0%no share count within 200 days30.00no stored barsno close to value it
2024-10-3112,000+0.0%no share count within 200 days5.71no stored barsno close to value it
2024-10-1512,000-92.1%no share count within 200 days41.67no stored barsno close to value it
2024-09-30152,000+985.7%no share count within 200 days9.96no stored barsno close to value it
2024-09-1314,000-25.9%no share count within 200 daysnot in the FINRA fileno stored barsno close to value it
2024-08-3018,900+57.5%no share count within 200 days5.34no stored barsno close to value it
2024-08-1512,000+0.0%no share count within 200 days3.41no stored barsno close to value it
2024-07-3112,000+0.0%no share count within 200 days1500.00no stored barsno close to value it
2024-07-1512,000+0.0%no share count within 200 days0.93no stored barsno close to value it
2024-06-2812,000+0.0%no share count within 200 days67.04no stored barsno close to value it
2024-06-1412,000+0.0%no share count within 200 days32.79no stored barsno close to value it
2024-05-3112,000-62.5%no share count within 200 days2.71no stored barsno close to value it
2024-05-1532,000+166.7%no share count within 200 days3.20no stored barsno close to value it
2024-04-3012,000+0.0%no share count within 200 days2.49no stored barsno close to value it
2024-04-1512,000-33.3%no share count within 200 days1.18no stored barsno close to value it
2024-03-2818,000+0.0%no share count within 200 days14.67no stored barsno close to value it
2024-03-1518,000-18.2%no share count within 200 days0.43no stored barsno close to value it
2024-02-2922,000-98.8%no share count within 200 days0.89no stored barsno close to value it
2024-02-151,808,276-10.5%no share count within 200 days1792.15no stored barsno close to value it
2024-01-312,020,596-48.9%no share count within 200 days78.57no stored barsno close to value it
2024-01-123,958,000+4.8%no share count within 200 days5016.48no stored barsno close to value it
2023-12-293,776,000+34.6%no share count within 200 days161.31no stored barsno close to value it
2023-12-152,805,807+0.6%no share count within 200 days115.68no stored barsno close to value it
2023-11-302,790,000-16.0%no share count within 200 days718.70no stored barsno close to value it
2023-11-153,320,928-22.1%no share count within 200 days204.08no stored barsno close to value it
2023-10-314,262,928-0.6%no share count within 200 days1464.42no stored barsno close to value it
2023-10-134,287,428+0.0%no share count within 200 days2305.07no stored barsno close to value it
2023-09-294,287,428-1.1%no share count within 200 days91.78no stored barsno close to value it
2023-09-154,334,239-0.5%no share count within 200 days139.61no stored barsno close to value it
2023-08-314,354,551+70.5%no share count within 200 days594.56no stored barsno close to value it
2023-08-152,553,804no prior settlementno share count within 200 days2302.80no stored barsno close to value it

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.

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.

CHKIF short interest FAQ

How old is this CHKIF short interest figure?

It is the 2026-10-15 settlement, which is 25 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 2026-10-26 and the next cycle is expected around 2026-11-10. 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.

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