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Acadia Healthcare Company, 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 Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. was 22.8 million shares at the 30 September 2026 settlement, up 5.9% on the previous settlement, with 13.91 days to cover at an average daily volume of 1.6 million shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
30 September 202622,770,844+5.9%1,637,02213.91
15 September 202621,509,968-4.8%1,144,98718.79
31 August 202622,583,163+7.8%1,780,25512.69
14 August 202620,952,409-3.9%1,675,96712.50
31 July 202621,801,530+0.0%3,266,3386.67
15 July 202621,795,658-3.3%3,038,5497.17
30 June 202622,539,485+11.1%4,199,8395.37
15 June 202620,283,712-11.7%2,411,8368.41
29 May 202622,961,829+1.4%2,420,9609.48
15 May 202622,640,147-5.0%2,769,6468.17
30 April 202623,836,977+7.7%3,456,7506.90
15 April 202622,137,933+0.2%2,802,8767.90
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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