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Exelixis, 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 Exelixis, Inc. was 26.4 million shares at the 15 September 2026 settlement, down 7.9% on the previous settlement, with 12.38 days to cover at an average daily volume of 2.1 million shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
15 September 202626,400,456-7.9%2,131,65512.38
31 August 202628,656,285+2.2%1,925,98614.88
14 August 202628,031,459-2.5%3,217,4838.71
31 July 202628,749,664-7.0%2,142,04613.42
15 July 202630,913,414+8.3%2,439,20612.67
30 June 202628,539,118-6.8%3,327,7618.58
15 June 202630,635,016+3.1%2,261,90413.54
29 May 202629,707,071-1.9%2,404,61812.35
15 May 202630,278,606+0.9%3,303,5519.17
30 April 202630,010,146+6.0%2,374,70912.64
15 April 202628,306,926+3.8%2,163,23313.09
31 March 202627,263,165+3.5%2,478,24911.00
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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