Nasdaq Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date October 31, 2025
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Nasdaq (NDAQ) reported end-of-month open short interest positions as of the October 31, 2025 settlement date. Total short interest across 5,097 Nasdaq securities was 17,265,222,015 shares, up from 16,909,289,866 shares at the prior reporting period (October 15, 2025).
Breakdowns: 3,402 Global Market issues had 14,079,841,205 shares short (1.99 days), and 1,695 Capital Market issues had 3,185,380,810 shares short (1.00 day). The aggregate average days to cover was 1.54 days versus 1.61 days previously.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of October 31, 2025, short interest in 3,402 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 14,079,841,205 shares compared with 13,834,913,159 shares in 3,382 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of October 15, 2025. The October short interest represents 1.99 days compared with 2.09 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,695 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 3,185,380,810 shares at the end of the settlement date of October 31, 2025, compared with 3,074,376,707 shares in 1,682 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 5,097 Nasdaq® securities totaled 17,265,222,015 shares at the October 31, 2025 settlement date, compared with 5,064 issues and 16,909,289,866 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 1.54 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 1.61 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, visit
http://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/short-interest.aspx
or http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/asp/short_interest.asp.
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Media Contact:
Sam Raffalli
sam.raffalli@nasdaq.com
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