Nasdaq Announces End-Of-Month Open Short Interest Positions In Nasdaq Stocks As Of Settlement Date May 30, 2025
At the end of the settlement date of May 30, 2025, short interest in 3,184 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 13,504,275,894 shares compared with 13,735,568,588 shares in 3,168 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of May 15, 2025. The mid-May short interest represents 2.19 days compared with 2.41 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,632 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 2,610,068,615 shares at the end of the settlement date of May 30, 2025, compared with 2,731,907,808 shares in 1,639 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.00 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.00.
In summary, short interest in all 4,816 Nasdaq® securities totaled 16,114,344,509 shares at the May 30, 2025 settlement date, compared with 4,807 issues and 16,467,476,396 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 1.54 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 1.79 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.
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