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Lazard, 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 Lazard, Inc. was 8.7 million shares at the 30 September 2026 settlement, down 12.3% on the previous settlement, with 3.52 days to cover at an average daily volume of 2.5 million shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
30 September 20268,712,963-12.3%2,474,3953.52
15 September 20269,934,545+6.4%1,148,2428.65
31 August 20269,340,503+1.0%1,230,1887.59
14 August 20269,250,620-0.8%1,506,3626.14
31 July 20269,326,655-13.9%2,019,1524.62
15 July 202610,827,795+26.0%1,592,1426.80
30 June 20268,596,247+38.8%4,267,6032.01
15 June 20266,191,431+58.5%2,401,2692.58
29 May 20263,907,113-17.6%914,8124.27
15 May 20264,739,347+5.2%1,615,8562.93
30 April 20264,507,079+7.0%1,198,4633.76
15 April 20264,211,398+20.7%1,430,0192.94
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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