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Royal Gold 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 Royal Gold Inc. was 2.2 million shares at the 15 September 2026 settlement, down 13.8% on the previous settlement, with 3.95 days to cover at an average daily volume of 561,048 shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
15 September 20262,218,686-13.8%561,0483.95
31 August 20262,575,154-3.4%712,1073.62
14 August 20262,665,009-12.8%772,0303.45
31 July 20263,056,637+6.8%667,1394.58
15 July 20262,862,233+6.2%695,2934.12
30 June 20262,695,322+5.2%842,8693.20
15 June 20262,562,364+7.3%704,9873.63
29 May 20262,388,040-3.5%596,4814.00
15 May 20262,474,184+15.0%817,5133.03
30 April 20262,152,242+4.4%765,2382.81
15 April 20262,061,593-9.3%783,6912.63
31 March 20262,274,112+2.2%1,783,7451.27
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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