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
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.
Short interest over time
First, the typical S&P 500 stock since 2021. Select a tile or any stock below for its own history.
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.
| Stock | Short interest | % of float | Days to cover | Since last report | 6 months | Price, 3M | Short interest, 1 year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UWMC United Wholesale Mortgage | 100Heavily shorted | 74.4% | 8.2 | +11.0 pts | +34.8 pts | −46% | |
| LCID Lucid Motors | 100Heavily shorted | 62.0% | 8.6 | +3.1 pts | +33.4 pts | −31% | |
| KRMN Karman Holdings | 100Heavily shorted | 53.8% | 3.3 | +6.0 pts | +24.5 pts | −28% | |
| PSKY Paramount Skydance Corporation | 100Heavily shorted | 50.3% | 3.6 | +14.8 pts | +18.4 pts | −2% | |
| SAIL SailPoint | 100Heavily shorted | 41.5% | 5.0 | +8.7 pts | +10.7 pts | +48% | |
| RH RH | 99Heavily shorted | 38.3% | 7.1 | +2.1 pts | +3.3 pts | −28% | |
| SMMT Summit Therapeutics | 99Heavily shorted | 37.3% | 4.8 | +0.1 pts | +4.6 pts | +15% | |
| FOUR Shift4 | 99Heavily shorted | 33.7% | 7.2 | −0.6 pts | −6.8 pts | −19% | |
| INGM Ingram Micro | 99Heavily shorted | 33.4% | 2.9 | +7.0 pts | +15.1 pts | −4% | |
| WEN Wendy's Company (The) | 99Heavily shorted | 31.1% | 7.7 | −0.1 pts | +7.9 pts | −17% | |
| GLOB Globant | 99Heavily shorted | 31.0% | 13.2 | +2.0 pts | +16.4 pts | +13% | |
| MPT Medical Properties Trust | 99Heavily shorted | 29.8% | 11.8 | +0.2 pts | +0.8 pts | −30% | |
| RKT Rocket Companies | 99Heavily shorted | 28.3% | 3.2 | +4.2 pts | +18.7 pts | −17% | |
| WHR Whirlpool Corporation | 99Heavily shorted | 28.2% | 6.0 | +3.1 pts | +7.7 pts | −26% | |
| CHH Choice Hotels | 99Heavily shorted | 26.4% | 11.1 | +2.5 pts | −0.4 pts | −3% | |
| PATH UiPath | 98Heavily shorted | 26.4% | 2.3 | +1.0 pts | +3.5 pts | +14% | |
| ACHC Acadia Healthcare | 98Heavily shorted | 26.4% | 13.9 | +1.5 pts | −2.7 pts | −4% | |
| CERT Certara, Inc. | 98Heavily shorted | 25.8% | 9.0 | −1.0 pts | +3.6 pts | +34% | |
| MP MP Materials | 98Heavily shorted | 25.4% | 6.8 | +2.1 pts | +9.3 pts | −7% | |
| ASTS AST SpaceMobile | 98Heavily shorted | 24.4% | 6.1 | −0.2 pts | +7.2 pts | −25% | |
| SRPT Sarepta Therapeutics | 98Heavily shorted | 24.1% | 8.6 | −2.8 pts | −0.1 pts | −5% | |
| TEM Tempus AI | 98Heavily shorted | 23.6% | 3.2 | −2.8 pts | 0 pts | +27% | |
| FMC FMC Corporation | 98Heavily shorted | 23.4% | 6.5 | +1.8 pts | +11.5 pts | −23% | |
| LYFT Lyft | 98Heavily shorted | 23.1% | 9.2 | +0.9 pts | +4.1 pts | +4% | |
| FLO Flowers Foods | 98Heavily shorted | 22.9% | 5.3 | −0.9 pts | +9.8 pts | −30% | |
| VKTX Viking Therapeutics | 97Heavily shorted | 22.9% | 2.2 | +2.9 pts | +1.4 pts | −25% | |
| QS QuantumScape | 97Heavily shorted | 22.3% | 9.1 | +2.8 pts | +5.6 pts | −27% | |
| ENPH Enphase Energy | 97Heavily shorted | 22.0% | 5.5 | +3.3 pts | +5.7 pts | −24% | |
| RHI Robert Half | 97Heavily shorted | 21.8% | 11.3 | +0.1 pts | −4.1 pts | −5% | |
| RARE Ultragenyx | 97Heavily shorted | 21.5% | 3.1 | +4.0 pts | +11.0 pts | −53% | |
| CHTR Charter Communications | 97Heavily shorted | 21.5% | 5.0 | +1.4 pts | −0.3 pts | −21% | |
| SAM Boston Beer Company | 97Heavily shorted | 21.3% | 5.1 | +0.1 pts | +8.3 pts | −1% | |
| BLSH Bullish | 97Heavily shorted | 21.3% | 5.2 | +1.1 pts | −4.3 pts | +43% | |
| NCLH Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings | 97Heavily shorted | 21.3% | 4.5 | +0.4 pts | +10.9 pts | −21% | |
| SFD Smithfield Foods | 97Heavily shorted | 20.8% | 2.3 | −1.8 pts | +7.3 pts | −25% | |
| MTN Vail Resorts | 96Heavily shorted | 20.7% | 5.3 | +1.9 pts | +5.7 pts | −4% | |
| COLM Columbia Sportswear | 96Heavily shorted | 20.5% | 6.3 | +0.1 pts | +6.9 pts | −10% | |
| HOG Harley-Davidson | 96Heavily shorted | 20.3% | 10.6 | +2.5 pts | +2.7 pts | +6% | |
| RIVN Rivian | 96Heavily shorted | 20.2% | 6.9 | +1.8 pts | +2.7 pts | −19% | |
| TTD Trade Desk (The) | 96Heavily shorted | 20.1% | 2.6 | −1.1 pts | +8.2 pts | −39% | |
| CNXC Concentrix | 96Heavily shorted | 20.1% | 3.2 | +1.2 pts | −3.5 pts | +4% | |
| WING Wingstop | 96Heavily shorted | 19.7% | 3.5 | +0.2 pts | +6.0 pts | −21% | |
| NCNO nCino | 96Heavily shorted | 19.2% | 8.8 | +0.8 pts | +7.2 pts | +13% | |
| WU Western Union | 96Heavily shorted | 19.0% | 5.4 | +3.1 pts | +4.7 pts | −22% | |
| CACC Credit Acceptance | 96Heavily shorted | 18.7% | 6.7 | −0.4 pts | −3.2 pts | −13% | |
| CPB Campbell's Company (The) | 95Heavily shorted | 18.6% | 5.0 | −1.4 pts | −2.1 pts | −13% | |
| SWKS Skyworks Solutions | 95Heavily shorted | 18.6% | 4.3 | −3.2 pts | +4.2 pts | +31% | |
| CXT Crane NXT | 95Heavily shorted | 18.4% | 15.0 | +2.3 pts | +6.3 pts | 0% | |
| ACI Albertsons | 95Heavily shorted | 18.2% | 7.5 | +1.1 pts | +4.9 pts | −18% | |
| DUOL Duolingo | 95Heavily shorted | 18.0% | 6.7 | +1.5 pts | −1.2 pts | +13% | |
| DBX Dropbox | 95Heavily shorted | 17.9% | 4.5 | +1.7 pts | −1.0 pts | +16% | |
| PRGO Perrigo | 95Heavily shorted | 17.6% | 7.2 | +1.2 pts | +6.1 pts | +48% | |
| OZK Bank OZK | 95Heavily shorted | 17.5% | 13.5 | +1.1 pts | +1.9 pts | −12% | |
| CMS CMS Energy | 95Heavily shorted | 17.3% | 4.1 | +1.0 pts | +1.2 pts | −14% | |
| SOFI SoFi | 95Heavily shorted | 17.1% | 4.2 | +2.1 pts | +6.0 pts | −13% | |
| BROS Dutch Bros Inc. | 94Heavily shorted | 17.0% | 4.4 | +3.6 pts | +5.6 pts | −43% | |
| OWL Blue Owl Capital | 94Heavily shorted | 17.0% | 6.2 | +0.1 pts | −3.1 pts | +2% | |
| PK Park Hotels & Resorts | 94Heavily shorted | 16.9% | 9.8 | −0.8 pts | −1.9 pts | +7% | |
| FRPT Freshpet | 94Heavily shorted | 16.8% | 7.8 | +0.7 pts | +6.3 pts | +15% | |
| TDC Teradata | 94Heavily shorted | 16.8% | 10.5 | −1.1 pts | +4.7 pts | −10% |
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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