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Kohls 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 Kohls Corp. was 31.1 million shares at the 30 September 2026 settlement, down 6.8% on the previous settlement, with 7.96 days to cover at an average daily volume of 3.9 million shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
30 September 202631,084,645-6.8%3,902,9017.96
15 September 202633,349,657+8.7%3,861,5858.64
31 August 202630,692,752+2.9%5,570,6685.51
14 August 202629,840,650-3.3%3,208,5599.30
31 July 202630,858,309+1.5%3,241,0099.52
15 July 202630,390,317+1.8%3,726,3428.16
30 June 202629,868,325-0.6%5,457,4455.47
15 June 202630,054,737+23.3%5,850,8065.14
29 May 202624,381,478-5.4%7,151,1743.41
15 May 202625,761,791-1.4%4,299,2045.99
30 April 202626,114,402-11.7%4,520,2905.78
15 April 202629,580,470-3.1%3,920,6097.54
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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