At the end of the settlement date of April 15, 2024, short interest in 3,081 Nasdaq Global Market^SM securities totaled 11,407,213,969 shares compared with 11,297,406,980 shares in 3,102 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of March 28, 2024. The mid-April short interest represents 3.20 days compared with 2.78 days for the prior reporting period.

Short interest in 1,722 securities on The Nasdaq Capital Market^SM totaled 1,895,119,806 shares at the end of the settlement date of April 15, 2024, compared with 1,885,416,236 shares in 1,721 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.30 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.32.

In summary, short interest in all 4,803 Nasdaq® securities totaled 13,302,333,775 shares at the April 15, 2024 settlement date, compared with 4,823 issues and 13,182,823,216 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.65 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.40 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, visithttp://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/short-interest.aspxor http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.