Nasdaq Announces End-of-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date February 28, 2025
NEW YORK, March 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the end of the settlement date of February 28, 2025, short interest in 3,117 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 12,765,719,651 shares compared with 12,649,030,702 shares in 3,121 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of February 14, 2025. The mid-February short interest represents 2.42 days compared with 2.64 days for the prior reporting period.
Short interest in 1,628 securities on The Nasdaq Capital MarketSM totaled 2,565,936,316 shares at the end of the settlement date of February 28, 2025, compared with 2,531,037,044 shares in 1,629 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 4,745 Nasdaq® securities totaled 15,331,655,967 shares at the February 28, 2025 settlement date, compared with 4,750 issues and 15,180,067,746 shares at the end of the previous reporting period. This is 1.87 days average daily volume, compared with an average of 1.89 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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