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Lyft, 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 Lyft, Inc. was 78.9 million shares at the 30 September 2026 settlement, up 4.0% on the previous settlement, with 9.18 days to cover at an average daily volume of 8.6 million shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
30 September 202678,869,398+4.0%8,593,0009.18
15 September 202675,819,648+10.6%10,731,1877.07
31 August 202668,547,399+7.6%9,280,8647.39
14 August 202663,703,243-17.0%12,779,0614.98
31 July 202676,720,374-14.4%12,161,5836.31
15 July 202689,615,386-2.1%9,830,7309.12
30 June 202691,519,638-1.1%15,380,3385.95
15 June 202692,500,542+3.3%13,115,6587.05
29 May 202689,536,371+1.9%14,661,0936.11
15 May 202687,907,611+3.3%17,141,9045.13
30 April 202685,095,283+19.1%12,045,4197.06
15 April 202671,465,153-6.6%12,709,2675.62
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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