NEW YORK, July 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of July 15, 2026, short interest in 3,836 Nasdaq Global Market^SM securities totaled 18,406,468,581 shares compared with 18,453,725,441 shares in 3,804 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of June 30, 2026. The mid-July short interest represents 3.07 days compared with 2.45 days for the prior reporting period.

Short interest in 1,654 securities on The Nasdaq Capital Market^SM totaled 4,495,814,044 shares at the end of the settlement date of July 15, 2026, compared with 4,227,522,108 shares in 1,657 securities for the previous reporting period. This represents a 1.65 day average daily volume; the previous reporting period’s figure was 1.

In summary, short interest in all 5,490 Nasdaq^® securities totaled 22,902,282,625 shares at the July 15, 2026 settlement date, compared with 5,461 issues and 22,681,247,549 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 2.63 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 1.64 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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