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Days to cover across six household names, latest settlement date

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 Hard-to-Borrow Lists and Borrow Fees.

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Days to cover across six household names, latest settlement date — 6 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerdays_to_coveras_of_label
AAPL2.42Jul 31, 2026
KO2.39Jul 31, 2026
NVDA2.3Jul 31, 2026
MSFT2.03Jul 31, 2026
TSLA1.55Jul 31, 2026
F1.43Jul 31, 2026
Rows × columns
6 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Days to cover across six household names, latest settlement date, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 6 distinct values (AAPL, F, KO…)
days_to_cover number 1.43 to 2.42
as_of_label text 1 distinct value (Jul 31, 2026)

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
WITH (
    SELECT max(settlement_date)
    FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
) AS latest_settlement
SELECT
    ticker,
    round(max(days_to_cover), 2)                   AS days_to_cover,
    formatDateTime(latest_settlement, '%b %e, %Y') AS as_of_label
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = latest_settlement
  AND ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'TSLA', 'KO', 'F')
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY days_to_cover DESC

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