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4.34% of DRCT’s shares outstanding is sold short

30,767 shares short / 709,000 shares outstanding (share count as of 2026-06-30, 10-Q).

“Moderate” 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 2026-10-30 settlement, which is 12 days ago. FINRA publishes twice a month on the seventh business day after settlement, so this cycle was published around 2026-11-10 and the next is expected around 2026-11-24. No free source anywhere has anything fresher, including sites that display this number next to a live price.

Shares sold short	30,767 ⊙ EVIDENCE — filed/published fact SourceFINRA consolidated short interest FieldcurrentShortPositionQuantity As of2026-10-30 settlement HowFile shrt20261030.csv in FINRA's catalog (posted ~7 business days after settlement). Open the source document →
Prior settlement	31,928
Change	-3.6%
Days to coverShares short divided by average daily volume. FINRA publishes 1.00 here because it does not report below 1.00.	0.67 ⊙ INFERENCE — derived by arithmetic SourceFINRA consolidated short interest FieldcurrentShortPositionQuantity ÷ averageDailyVolumeQuantity As of2026-10-30 settlement HowComputed from FINRA’s two published operands. FINRA’s own daysToCoverQuantity field floors at 1.00 and is not used. Open the source document → FINRA prints 1.00 (floored)
Average daily volume (FINRA, the days-to-cover denominator)	45,893
Exchange	OTC
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.	4.34%
Shares outstandingfrom filings, as of 2026-06-30	709,000

Short interest history

78 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

Settlement	Shares short	Change	% of shares out	Days to cover	Close, USD	Value short, USD
2026-10-30	30,767	-3.6%	no share count within 200 days	0.67	no stored bar	no close to value it
2026-10-15	31,928	+1053.1%	no share count within 200 days	0.17	no stored bar	no close to value it
2026-09-30	2,769	-97.9%	no share count within 200 days	0.13	1.52	4,209
2026-09-15	133,240	+1501.8%	no share count within 200 days	0.16	2.08	277,139
2026-08-31	8,318	-29.0%	no share count within 200 days	1.06	2.26	18,799
2026-08-14	11,717	-8.5%	no share count within 200 days	0.69	2.64	30,933
2026-07-31	12,800	+26.7%	no share count within 200 days	0.39	2.55	32,640
2026-07-15	10,104	-46.9%	no share count within 200 days	0.61	2.58	26,068
2026-06-30	19,015	-58.0%	no share count within 200 days	0.97	2.71	51,531
2026-06-15	45,319	+337.7%	no share count within 200 days	0.38	3.02	136,863
2026-05-29	10,353	-44.0%	no share count within 200 days	0.47	2.83	29,299
2026-05-15	18,481	-91.4%	no share count within 200 days	0.11	3.95	73,000

Show the other 66 settlements, back to 2023-08-15

Settlement	Shares short	Change	% of shares out	Days to cover	Close, USD	Value short, USD
2026-04-30	215,086	+648.5%	no share count within 200 days	0.24	2.97	638,805
2026-04-15	28,736	-63.5%	no share count within 200 days	0.19	0.74	21,270
2026-03-31	78,708	+199.7%	no share count within 200 days	0.85	0.81	63,753
2026-03-13	26,262	-57.8%	no share count within 200 days	0.21	0.98	25,737
2026-02-27	62,292	-21.6%	no share count within 200 days	0.22	1.09	67,898
2026-02-13	79,446	-15.0%	no share count within 200 days	0.27	1.53	121,552
2026-01-30	93,431	+67.9%	no share count within 200 days	0.01	2.28	213,023
2026-01-15	55,640	-97.4%	no share count within 200 days	0.12	1.69	94,032
2025-12-31	2,168,633	+274.7%	no share count within 200 days	0.06	0.06	139,660
2025-12-15	578,717	-64.0%	no share count within 200 days	0.02	0.07	39,353
2025-11-28	1,609,055	-62.3%	no share count within 200 days	0.25	0.12	185,363
2025-11-14	4,263,543	+182.1%	no share count within 200 days	0.30	0.20	858,251
2025-10-31	1,511,464	-41.2%	no share count within 200 days	1.96	0.38	572,845
2025-10-15	2,572,434	+143.8%	no share count within 200 days	0.27	0.35	913,214
2025-09-30	1,055,000	+232.2%	no share count within 200 days	0.43	0.34	357,012
2025-09-15	317,549	-17.5%	no share count within 200 days	1.33	0.42	132,704
2025-08-29	384,689	+2.0%	no share count within 200 days	1.91	0.46	176,957
2025-08-15	377,186	+289.4%	no share count within 200 days	0.30	0.41	154,646
2025-07-31	96,858	+60.0%	no share count within 200 days	0.58	0.53	51,528
2025-07-15	60,551	+1.8%	no share count within 200 days	0.44	0.55	33,000
2025-06-30	59,497	-62.8%	no share count within 200 days	0.35	0.56	33,616
2025-06-13	159,913	-22.2%	no share count within 200 days	1.03	0.53	84,594
2025-05-30	205,608	-14.2%	no share count within 200 days	0.44	0.52	107,451
2025-05-15	239,709	-61.4%	no share count within 200 days	0.06	0.52	123,930
2025-04-30	620,823	+31.0%	no share count within 200 days	0.38	0.70	435,197
2025-04-15	473,960	-48.3%	no share count within 200 days	1.34	0.55	259,872
2025-03-31	917,117	+189.9%	no share count within 200 days	0.37	0.64	586,955
2025-03-14	316,359	-11.3%	no share count within 200 days	2.88	0.78	246,444
2025-02-28	356,627	+6.7%	no share count within 200 days	2.28	0.95	338,261
2025-02-14	334,267	-48.1%	no share count within 200 days	1.74	1.12	374,379
2025-01-31	644,159	-11.4%	no share count within 200 days	1.31	1.20	772,991
2025-01-15	726,709	+212.2%	no share count within 200 days	0.13	1.40	1.0M
2024-12-31	232,781	+3.6%	no share count within 200 days	0.02	1.59	370,122
2024-12-13	224,619	+144.7%	no share count within 200 days	0.87	0.67	149,372
2024-11-29	91,794	-52.0%	no share count within 200 days	0.71	1.20	110,153
2024-11-15	191,212	+58.9%	no share count within 200 days	1.85	1.57	300,203
2024-10-31	120,331	+7.9%	no share count within 200 days	0.75	2.72	327,300
2024-10-15	111,470	-1.9%	no share count within 200 days	0.91	3.59	400,177
2024-09-30	113,632	+93.5%	no share count within 200 days	2.21	2.11	239,764
2024-09-13	58,713	+6.0%	no share count within 200 days	1.28	2.52	147,957
2024-08-30	55,412	+40.3%	no share count within 200 days	1.10	3.00	166,513
2024-08-15	39,509	-24.5%	no share count within 200 days	0.42	3.35	132,355
2024-07-31	52,322	-68.8%	no share count within 200 days	0.47	4.34	227,077
2024-07-15	167,823	-29.1%	no share count within 200 days	1.09	4.24	711,570
2024-06-28	236,694	-36.4%	no share count within 200 days	1.02	before stored bars	no close to value it
2024-06-14	372,421	+239.2%	no share count within 200 days	0.22	before stored bars	no close to value it
2024-05-31	109,805	-7.1%	no share count within 200 days	1.31	before stored bars	no close to value it
2024-05-15	118,153	-16.1%	no share count within 200 days	1.02	before stored bars	no close to value it
2024-04-30	140,894	+16.0%	no share count within 200 days	1.43	before stored bars	no close to value it
2024-04-15	121,445	-57.8%	no share count within 200 days	0.89	before stored bars	no close to value it
2024-03-28	287,784	+17.5%	no share count within 200 days	0.68	before stored bars	no close to value it
2024-03-15	244,933	-26.2%	no share count within 200 days	1.44	before stored bars	no close to value it
2024-02-29	331,735	-21.5%	no share count within 200 days	1.44	before stored bars	no close to value it
2024-02-15	422,593	+19.4%	no share count within 200 days	1.41	before stored bars	no close to value it
2024-01-31	354,021	-15.9%	no share count within 200 days	1.62	before stored bars	no close to value it
2024-01-12	421,060	+20.3%	no share count within 200 days	1.34	before stored bars	no close to value it
2023-12-29	349,908	-3.6%	no share count within 200 days	0.78	before stored bars	no close to value it
2023-12-15	363,098	-25.7%	no share count within 200 days	0.56	before stored bars	no close to value it
2023-11-30	488,619	-9.9%	no share count within 200 days	0.41	before stored bars	no close to value it
2023-11-15	542,470	+8951.7%	no share count within 200 days	0.19	before stored bars	no close to value it
2023-10-31	5,993	+106.4%	no share count within 200 days	0.43	before stored bars	no close to value it
2023-10-13	2,903	-89.3%	no share count within 200 days	0.19	before stored bars	no close to value it
2023-09-29	27,176	+41.3%	no share count within 200 days	1.08	before stored bars	no close to value it
2023-09-15	19,230	-64.5%	no share count within 200 days	0.63	before stored bars	no close to value it
2023-08-31	54,124	-17.5%	no share count within 200 days	1.12	before stored bars	no close to value it
2023-08-15	65,640	no prior settlement	no share count within 200 days	0.85	before stored bars	no 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.

Price context // daily bars, not short data

Where the price sits

Session of 2026-09-30, from 247 sessions of daily bars. These are price figures, not short figures, and they update daily rather than twice a month.

Close	$1.52
Volume, latest session	14,936
Volume vs averageAgainst its own 50-session average of 187,117, same series on both sides	0.08x
% from 50-day average ($2.22)	-31.4%
% from 200-day average ($1.96)	-22.5%
RSI, 14-dayWilder’s construction, so it matches what charting platforms print	31.1

Some longer-window figures are absent because DRCT has only 247 sessions of history. A 200-day average computed over fewer than 200 sessions is a different number with the same name, so it is left out rather than approximated.

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.

DRCT short interest FAQ

How old is this DRCT short interest figure?

It is the 2026-10-30 settlement, which is 12 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 2026-11-10 and the next cycle is expected around 2026-11-24. 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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