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GAP 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 GAP Inc. was 26.2 million shares at the 15 September 2026 settlement, down 10.5% on the previous settlement, with 3.92 days to cover at an average daily volume of 6.7 million shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
15 September 202626,223,096-10.5%6,684,9533.92
31 August 202629,308,362-2.0%10,485,1322.80
14 August 202629,895,509+4.0%5,215,1865.73
31 July 202628,749,281-4.8%6,206,2544.63
15 July 202630,196,271+13.3%8,044,8063.75
30 June 202626,650,709+12.9%9,036,2162.95
15 June 202623,604,693-6.8%7,412,1033.18
29 May 202625,337,595-4.1%12,184,9162.08
15 May 202626,423,916-11.1%7,007,9243.77
30 April 202629,715,905-5.7%5,552,2965.35
15 April 202631,519,261-1.3%6,886,1164.58
31 March 202631,939,737+1.6%8,831,1983.62
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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