At the end of the settlement date of September 15, 2025, short interest in 3,341 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 14,035,983,054 shares compared with 13,901,511,651 shares in 3,315 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of August 29, 2025. The mid-September short interest represents 2.49 days compared with 2.39 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,673 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 3,110,176,592 shares at the end of the settlement date of September 15, 2025, compared with 3,057,145,541 shares in 1,673 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.08 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.10.
In summary, short interest in all 5,014 Nasdaq® securities totaled 17,146,159,646 shares at the September 15, 2025 settlement date, compared with 4,988 issues and 16,958,657,192 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.01 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 1.97 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
http://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/short-interest.aspx
or http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
