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Reported short interest and days to cover across seven large caps

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 2026-10-05, from Can You Opt Out of Share Lending?.

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Reported short interest and days to cover across seven large caps — 7 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickeras_of_labelshort_interest_millionsdays_to_cover
AMGNSep 15, 202614.14.94
MSFTSep 15, 202667.33.73
CATSep 15, 20268.43.7
AAPLSep 15, 2026128.82.85
KOSep 15, 202640.62.79
CVXSep 15, 202620.82.61
NVDASep 15, 2026294.22.55
Rows × columns
7 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Reported short interest and days to cover across seven large caps, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 7 distinct values (AAPL, AMGN, CAT…)
as_of_label text 1 distinct value (Sep 15, 2026)
short_interest_millions number 8.4 to 294.2
days_to_cover number 2.55 to 4.94

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 , and the query below is what returned them.

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SELECT
    ticker,
    formatDateTime(max(settlement_date), '%b %e, %Y')       AS as_of_label,
    round(argMax(short_interest, settlement_date) / 1e6, 1) AS short_interest_millions,
    round(argMax(days_to_cover, settlement_date), 2)        AS days_to_cover
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'KO', 'CVX', 'AMGN', 'CAT')
  AND settlement_date >= today() - 60
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY days_to_cover DESC
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