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Highest days to cover, latest settlement date (min 1M shares/day traded)

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 Short Interest vs Short Volume: The Difference.

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Highest days to cover, latest settlement date (min 1M shares/day traded) — 10 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerdays_to_coveravg_daily_volume_m_shares
MPT30.84.7
LCTX26.21.1
HRTX24.41.8
GPGI22.91.4
NTST22.11.4
DDD22.12
OCGN21.64.7
NLST21.11.7
SVRA20.11.8
RC19.91.1
Rows × columns
10 × 3
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
Licence
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Formats
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Highest days to cover, latest settlement date (min 1M shares/day traded), derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 10 distinct values (DDD, GPGI, HRTX…)
days_to_cover number 19.9 to 30.8
avg_daily_volume_m_shares number 1.1 to 4.7 count

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 ticker,
       round(max(days_to_cover), 1) AS days_to_cover,
       round(max(avg_daily_volume) / 1e6, 1) AS avg_daily_volume_m_shares
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date = (SELECT max(settlement_date) FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest)
  AND avg_daily_volume >= 1000000
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY days_to_cover DESC
LIMIT 10

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