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American Homes 4 Rent 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 Homes 4 Rent was 11.6 million shares at the 15 September 2026 settlement, up 7.2% on the previous settlement, with 4.86 days to cover at an average daily volume of 2.4 million shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
15 September 202611,598,362+7.2%2,385,0214.86
31 August 202610,815,485+9.8%1,672,2916.47
14 August 20269,849,131+0.4%2,442,4094.03
31 July 20269,809,173-9.6%2,114,8894.64
15 July 202610,855,177+22.2%1,737,4966.25
30 June 20268,886,269+3.0%2,958,6973.00
15 June 20268,630,659+15.9%2,455,4653.51
29 May 20267,445,767+6.1%3,224,5302.31
15 May 20267,019,158-2.3%4,049,3011.73
30 April 20267,181,930+0.6%2,356,2063.05
15 April 20267,136,521+3.3%3,121,8492.29
31 March 20266,906,671+9.0%3,066,3922.25
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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