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Six household names at the latest settlement: shares short, percent of shares outstanding, days to cover

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 What Is FINRA Short Interest? Days to Cover.

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Six household names at the latest settlement: shares short, percent of shares outstanding, days to cover — 6 rows by 6 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickershares_short_mshares_outstanding_mshares_outstanding_m_fmtshort_pct_of_shares_outdays_to_cover
AAPL141.61474814,7480.962.42
KO44.843034,3031.042.39
MSFT81.374317,4311.092.03
NVDA292.72428624,2861.212.3
TSLA68.532253,2252.121.55
GME53.74484481217.06
Rows × columns
6 × 6
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Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Six household names at the latest settlement: shares short, percent of shares outstanding, days to cover, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 6 distinct values (AAPL, GME, KO…)
shares_short_m number 44.8 to 292.7 count
shares_outstanding_m number 448 to 24,286 count
shares_outstanding_m_fmt text 6 distinct values (14,748, 24,286, 3,225…)
short_pct_of_shares_out number 0.96 to 12 percent
days_to_cover number 1.55 to 17.06

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,
shares AS
(
    SELECT tk AS ticker,
           argMax(basic_shares_outstanding, (filing_date, period_end)) AS shares_out
    FROM global_markets.stocks_income_statements
    ARRAY JOIN tickers AS tk
    WHERE tk IN ('AAPL', 'KO', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'TSLA', 'GME')
      AND timeframe = 'quarterly'
      AND filing_date >= today() - INTERVAL 1 YEAR
      AND basic_shares_outstanding > 0
    GROUP BY tk
),
si AS
(
    SELECT ticker,
           max(short_interest) AS shares_short,
           max(days_to_cover) AS dtc
    FROM global_markets.stocks_short_interest
    WHERE settlement_date = latest
      AND ticker IN ('AAPL', 'KO', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'TSLA', 'GME')
    GROUP BY ticker
)
SELECT si.ticker AS ticker,
       round(si.shares_short / 1e6, 1) AS shares_short_m,
       round(shares.shares_out / 1e6, 0) AS shares_outstanding_m,
       multiIf(shares.shares_out < 1e9, toString(toUInt64(round(shares.shares_out / 1e6, 0))),
               concat(toString(intDiv(toUInt64(round(shares.shares_out / 1e6, 0)), 1000)), ',',
                      lpad(toString(toUInt64(round(shares.shares_out / 1e6, 0)) % 1000), 3, '0'))) AS shares_outstanding_m_fmt,
       round(100.0 * si.shares_short / shares.shares_out, 2) AS short_pct_of_shares_out,
       round(si.dtc, 2) AS days_to_cover
FROM si
INNER JOIN shares ON si.ticker = shares.ticker
ORDER BY indexOf(['AAPL', 'KO', 'MSFT', 'NVDA', 'TSLA', 'GME'], si.ticker)

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