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Middlesex Water Co. 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 Middlesex Water Co. was 808,287 shares at the 30 September 2026 settlement, down 6.3% on the previous settlement, with 5.92 days to cover at an average daily volume of 136,437 shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
30 September 2026808,287-6.3%136,4375.92
15 September 2026862,662+10.2%106,0548.13
31 August 2026782,818-6.7%129,9676.02
14 August 2026839,099+1.5%134,1236.26
31 July 2026826,625-8.3%137,5546.01
15 July 2026901,246+4.7%262,4493.43
30 June 2026860,652+5.2%210,8994.08
15 June 2026818,102+3.9%118,3836.91
29 May 2026787,334-4.5%114,7236.86
15 May 2026824,589+2.9%111,0757.42
30 April 2026801,236+3.9%223,5983.58
15 April 2026771,309+11.8%154,0925.01
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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