Shares held short against average daily volume, large dividend payers

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-22, from Can You Sell on the Ex-Dividend Date?.

Rows × columns

8 × 4

Computed

2026-08-22

Completeness

No missing values

Source

US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data

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What each column holds

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on 2026-08-22, and the query below is what returned them.

SELECT
    ticker,
    formatDateTime(max(settlement_date), '%b %e, %Y')         AS as_of,
    round(argMax(short_interest, settlement_date) / 1e6, 2)   AS shares_short_millions,
    round(argMax(avg_daily_volume, settlement_date) / 1e6, 2) AS avg_volume_millions
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'JNJ', 'KO', 'PG', 'XOM', 'CVX', 'PEP')
  AND settlement_date >= today() - 150
  AND short_interest > 0
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY shares_short_millions DESC