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Which stocks are most shorted?

Short sellers borrow shares to sell, betting the price will fall, and they tend to be well-informed skeptics. Heavy short interest flags a contested stock, and when the price rises instead, short sellers buying back can fuel a squeeze.

Updated Sep 30, 2026

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short interest vs 5 years

Short sellers busier than usual

Short sellers have bet against 3.2% of the freely traded shares of the typical S&P 500 company, more than a year ago and higher than in 96% of reports over five years. The most shorted large stock is United Wholesale Mortgage, at 74% of its float; in the S&P 500 it is Paramount Skydance, at 50%. 50 stocks have 15% or more of their float short and would take five days or more of normal trading to buy back.

Typical S&P stock 3.2%50 squeeze candidatesReport of Sep 30, 2026
Typical S&P 500 stock, past year

Short interest over time

First, the typical S&P 500 stock since 2021. Select a tile or any stock below for its own history.

Short interest in the typical S&P 500 stock
Median shares sold short as a share of each company’s freely traded shares, at each twice-monthly report.
2%3%Jan 22Jul 22Jan 23Jul 23Jan 24Jul 24Jan 25Jul 25Jan 26Jul 26

The 60 most shorted large stocks

Ranked by shares short as a share of freely traded shares. Days to cover is how many days of normal volume it would take to buy them all back. Select a column to sort.

StockShort interest% of floatDays to coverSince last report6 monthsPrice, 3MShort interest, 1 year

How to read this page

How it’s measured. Short interest reported by brokers to FINRA twice a month, for stocks in the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000, divided by each company’s freely traded shares from FMP. Days to cover divides the shares short by average daily volume.

Sources. Daily prices from Financial Modeling Prep; short interest and margin data from FINRA.

Short interest is reported about a week after each settlement date, so it lags. Some short positions hedge convertible bonds or other holdings rather than bet on a fall.

Heavy shorting has not reliably predicted either a fall or a squeeze; it measures disagreement about a stock.

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