Academy Sports & Outdoors, 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 Academy Sports & Outdoors, Inc. was 8.7 million shares at the 30 September 2026 settlement, up 6.1% on the previous settlement, with 5.52 days to cover at an average daily volume of 1.6 million shares, as reported to FINRA.
| Settlement | Shares short | Change | Average daily volume | Days to cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2026 | 8,696,242 | +6.1% | 1,575,011 | 5.52 |
| 15 September 2026 | 8,197,155 | -13.2% | 2,619,644 | 3.13 |
| 31 August 2026 | 9,438,168 | +24.1% | 1,954,454 | 4.83 |
| 14 August 2026 | 7,605,742 | -2.6% | 1,087,280 | 7.00 |
| 31 July 2026 | 7,808,973 | +0.8% | 1,174,125 | 6.65 |
| 15 July 2026 | 7,746,804 | -8.2% | 1,499,919 | 5.16 |
| 30 June 2026 | 8,443,660 | +5.6% | 1,873,310 | 4.51 |
| 15 June 2026 | 7,995,954 | +19.9% | 1,886,621 | 4.24 |
| 29 May 2026 | 6,666,117 | -0.3% | 1,270,245 | 5.25 |
| 15 May 2026 | 6,686,366 | -12.5% | 1,272,483 | 5.25 |
| 30 April 2026 | 7,638,514 | +14.3% | 1,086,388 | 7.03 |
| 15 April 2026 | 6,680,313 | +4.1% | 1,515,971 | 4.41 |
FINRA publishes consolidated short interest twice a month, about ten days after each settlement.
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Days 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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