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American Airlines Group Inc. short interest

Short interest is the number of shares investors have borrowed and sold, betting the price will fall, and not yet bought back. Brokers submit it twice a month, and days to cover is how many days of normal trading it would take to buy them all back.

Short interest in American Airlines Group Inc. was 91.6 million shares at the 15 September 2026 settlement, up 21.3% on the previous settlement, with 1.45 days to cover at an average daily volume of 63.3 million shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
15 September 202691,609,119+21.3%63,270,3181.45
31 August 202675,497,100+16.6%64,460,3291.17
14 August 202664,750,222+1.0%47,654,2491.36
31 July 202664,120,117+0.8%105,870,3491.00
15 July 202663,578,122+9.9%142,667,3711.00
30 June 202657,852,431-10.0%158,335,5241.00
15 June 202664,259,886-14.1%113,394,5331.00
29 May 202674,841,715-11.5%82,127,5791.00
15 May 202684,579,516+5.4%50,711,1011.67
30 April 202680,258,905+34.5%54,914,4351.46
15 April 202659,655,454-19.9%56,013,0741.07
31 March 202674,492,898+32.1%61,795,7181.21
FINRA publishes consolidated short interest twice a month, about ten days after each settlement.
Read moreDays to cover is shares short over average daily volume. Short interest as a share of the float is not shown: the float is not in the public record.

Source

FINRA equity short interest data, the public dataset.

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