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Flowers Foods 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 Flowers Foods Inc. was 44.8 million shares at the 30 September 2026 settlement, down 3.6% on the previous settlement, with 5.33 days to cover at an average daily volume of 8.4 million shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
30 September 202644,803,095-3.6%8,399,0435.33
15 September 202646,488,528+3.2%8,246,5355.64
31 August 202645,041,055-2.4%7,400,4196.09
14 August 202646,124,039+4.8%4,972,1329.28
31 July 202644,005,171+0.7%5,105,6698.62
15 July 202643,697,640-5.8%5,173,8348.45
30 June 202646,394,648+10.1%10,574,2334.39
15 June 202642,137,378+14.2%6,487,2306.50
29 May 202636,886,478-0.2%11,394,5023.24
15 May 202636,957,411+20.5%10,450,5213.54
30 April 202630,679,222+11.9%4,396,6866.98
15 April 202627,404,372+13.3%4,534,4446.04
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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