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National Presto Industries 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 National Presto Industries Inc. was 172,800 shares at the 30 September 2026 settlement, down 29.1% on the previous settlement, with 1.39 days to cover at an average daily volume of 124,225 shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
30 September 2026172,800-29.1%124,2251.39
15 September 2026243,733-6.4%99,7602.44
31 August 2026260,381-14.3%99,9772.60
14 August 2026303,747-1.0%98,1613.09
31 July 2026306,714+4.8%82,1713.73
15 July 2026292,627-1.7%83,9603.49
30 June 2026297,632+12.5%131,3192.27
15 June 2026264,629+7.3%166,4571.59
29 May 2026246,530+6.1%139,2331.77
15 May 2026232,263+0.2%83,6932.78
30 April 2026231,694+6.1%85,6022.71
15 April 2026218,387+0.3%74,0782.95
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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