At the end of the settlement date of June 30, 2026, short interest in 3,804 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 18,453,725,441 shares compared with 17,903,270,409 shares in 3,764 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of June 15, 2026. The June short interest represents 2.45 days compared with 2.79 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,657 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 4,227,522,108 shares at the end of the settlement date of June 30, 2026, compared with 4,045,966,221 shares in 1,659 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.
In summary, short interest in all 5,461 Nasdaq® securities totaled 22,681,247,549 shares at the June 30, 2026 settlement date, compared with 5,423 issues and 21,949,236,630 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 1.64 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.06 days for the prior reporting period.
The open short interest positions reported for each Nasdaq security reflect the total number of shares sold short by all broker/dealers regardless of their exchange affiliations. A short sale is generally understood to mean the sale of a security that the seller does not own or any sale that is consummated by the delivery of a security borrowed by or for the account of the seller.
For more information on Nasdaq Short interest positions, including publication dates, visit https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/quotes/short-interest or http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
