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AAPL in the short interest file: the five most recent settlement prints

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 2026-07-26, from FINRA Short Interest Data, Explained.

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AAPL in the short interest file: the five most recent settlement prints — 5 rows by 5 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
settlementshares_short_mnadv_mndays_to_coverchange_pct
2026-04-30134.745.92.930.2
2026-05-15138.850.62.743
2026-05-29155.946.13.3812.3
2026-06-15144.252.32.76-7.5
2026-06-30140.581.11.73-2.6
Rows × columns
5 × 5
Period covered
to
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for AAPL in the short interest file: the five most recent settlement prints, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
settlement date 2026-04-30 to 2026-06-30
shares_short_mn number 134.7 to 155.9 count
adv_mn number 45.9 to 81.1
days_to_cover number 1.73 to 3.38
change_pct number -7.5 to 12.3 percent

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.

the exact SQL behind every number
SELECT settlement, shares_short_mn, adv_mn, days_to_cover, change_pct
FROM (
    SELECT settlement_date,
           toString(settlement_date) AS settlement,
           round(short_interest / 1e6, 1) AS shares_short_mn,
           round(avg_daily_volume / 1e6, 1) AS adv_mn,
           days_to_cover,
           round((short_interest - lagInFrame(short_interest) OVER (ORDER BY settlement_date))
                 / lagInFrame(short_interest) OVER (ORDER BY settlement_date) * 100, 1) AS change_pct
    FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
    WHERE ticker = 'AAPL'
      AND settlement_date >= '2026-04-15' AND settlement_date <= '2026-06-30'
)
WHERE settlement_date > '2026-04-15'
ORDER BY settlement_date

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