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Reported short interest and days to cover, latest settlement date on file

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 Street Name vs Holder of Record: Cede & Co.

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Reported short interest and days to cover, latest settlement date on file — 8 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickercover_daysshort_interest_millionsas_of_label
CSCO3.2866.2Jul 31, 2026
PG3.2527.1Jul 31, 2026
JNJ2.9925.4Jul 31, 2026
XOM2.9442.3Jul 31, 2026
AAPL2.42141.6Jul 31, 2026
KO2.3944.8Jul 31, 2026
NVDA2.3292.7Jul 31, 2026
MSFT2.0381.3Jul 31, 2026
Rows × columns
8 × 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, latest settlement date on file, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 8 distinct values (AAPL, CSCO, JNJ…)
cover_days number 2.03 to 3.28
short_interest_millions number 25.4 to 292.7
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
SELECT
    ticker,
    round(argMax(days_to_cover, settlement_date), 2)        AS cover_days,
    round(argMax(short_interest, settlement_date) / 1e6, 1) AS short_interest_millions,
    formatDateTime(max(settlement_date), '%b %e, %Y')       AS as_of_label
FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
WHERE settlement_date >= today() - 120
  AND ticker IN ('AAPL', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'KO', 'JNJ', 'CSCO', 'PG', 'XOM')
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY cover_days DESC

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