At the end of the settlement date of April 15, 2026, short interest in 3,689 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 16,579,123,734 shares compared with 16,513,796,397 shares in 3,694 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of March 31, 2026. The mid-April short interest represents 2.71 days compared with 2.73 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,643 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 3,919,142,444 shares at the end of the settlement date of April 15, 2026, compared with 3,881,873,664 shares in 1,642 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.16 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.30.
In summary, short interest in all 5,332 Nasdaq® securities totaled 20,498,266,178 shares at the April 15, 2026 settlement date, compared with 5,336 issues and 20,395,670,061 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.16 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.26 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.
