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Magnolia Oil & Gas 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 Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp. was 26.2 million shares at the 30 September 2026 settlement, up 4.5% on the previous settlement, with 5.39 days to cover at an average daily volume of 4.9 million shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
30 September 202626,244,942+4.5%4,869,1175.39
15 September 202625,116,033+7.8%3,946,3736.36
31 August 202623,308,654+8.8%3,033,1187.68
14 August 202621,421,063-0.4%3,841,9915.58
31 July 202621,516,494+2.2%9,701,4312.22
15 July 202621,043,706+5.8%2,084,86610.09
30 June 202619,891,144+0.3%4,392,9394.53
15 June 202619,824,818+0.7%2,224,9458.91
29 May 202619,690,963+0.0%2,025,3399.72
15 May 202619,689,742+5.3%2,707,2287.27
30 April 202618,692,549-3.0%1,962,3359.53
15 April 202619,277,683-7.4%2,416,1667.98
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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