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Chemed Corp. 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 Chemed Corp. was 653,250 shares at the 15 September 2026 settlement, up 15.7% on the previous settlement, with 5.40 days to cover at an average daily volume of 120,997 shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
15 September 2026653,250+15.7%120,9975.40
31 August 2026564,624-11.6%150,1523.76
14 August 2026638,408+38.4%171,0733.73
31 July 2026461,352-18.5%181,2642.55
15 July 2026566,002+0.3%155,9033.63
30 June 2026564,257-6.3%242,9542.32
15 June 2026602,352-5.5%214,2202.81
29 May 2026637,297+1.1%196,4043.24
15 May 2026630,541+20.1%230,0542.74
30 April 2026525,042+22.0%311,1121.69
15 April 2026430,383-11.8%210,2252.05
31 March 2026487,863+13.2%319,0601.53
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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