At the end of the settlement date of April 15, 2025, short interest in 3,143 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 13,211,633,004 shares compared with 13,072,444,217 shares in 3,140 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of March 31, 2025. The mid-April short interest represents 1.76 days compared with 2.64 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,634 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 2,609,354,721 shares at the end of the settlement date of April 15, 2025, compared with 2,682,510,166 shares in 1,625 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.00 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.12.
In summary, short interest in all 4,777 Nasdaq® securities totaled 15,820,987,725 shares at the April 15, 2025 settlement date, compared with 4,765 issues and 15,754,954,383 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 1.52 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.14 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.
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