NEW YORK, June 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of May 29, 2026, short interest in 3,749 Nasdaq Global Market^SM securities totaled 17,273,936,410 shares compared with 17,000,786,423 shares in 3,727 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of May 15, 2026. The May short interest represents 3.01 days compared with 2.74 days for the prior reporting period.

Short interest in 1,650 securities on The Nasdaq Capital Market^SM totaled 3,946,041,797 shares at the end of the settlement date of May 29, 2026, compared with 3,909,823,972 shares in 1,640 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period's figure was 1.28.

In summary, short interest in all 5,399 Nasdaq^® securities totaled 21,219,978,207 shares at the May 29, 2026 settlement date, compared with 5,367 issues and 20,910,610,395 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.15 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 2.25 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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Nasdaq Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date May 29, 2026