Central Garden & PET Co. 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 Central Garden & PET Co. was 344,257 shares at the 30 September 2026 settlement, down 10.6% on the previous settlement, with 4.33 days to cover at an average daily volume of 79,517 shares, as reported to FINRA.
| Settlement | Shares short | Change | Average daily volume | Days to cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2026 | 344,257 | -10.6% | 79,517 | 4.33 |
| 15 September 2026 | 385,057 | -9.6% | 78,722 | 4.89 |
| 31 August 2026 | 425,697 | +12.3% | 134,637 | 3.16 |
| 14 August 2026 | 378,996 | +37.1% | 124,590 | 3.04 |
| 31 July 2026 | 276,503 | -7.5% | 73,157 | 3.78 |
| 15 July 2026 | 298,777 | -18.1% | 86,969 | 3.44 |
| 30 June 2026 | 364,766 | -7.8% | 107,110 | 3.41 |
| 15 June 2026 | 395,827 | -1.6% | 79,059 | 5.01 |
| 29 May 2026 | 402,471 | +14.3% | 58,061 | 6.93 |
| 15 May 2026 | 352,002 | +12.2% | 60,401 | 5.83 |
| 30 April 2026 | 313,622 | +2.6% | 39,141 | 8.01 |
| 15 April 2026 | 305,758 | +2.9% | 71,038 | 4.30 |
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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