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SLM 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 SLM Corp. was 17.9 million shares at the 15 September 2026 settlement, up 2.9% on the previous settlement, with 11.48 days to cover at an average daily volume of 1.6 million shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
15 September 202617,944,299+2.9%1,562,91211.48
31 August 202617,441,002-2.0%1,728,31710.09
14 August 202617,789,673-12.2%2,095,2458.49
31 July 202620,262,204+6.1%3,074,5696.59
15 July 202619,102,650-3.8%3,172,5116.02
30 June 202619,851,449-7.8%3,162,7806.28
15 June 202621,518,507-2.9%2,938,6027.32
29 May 202622,155,967-2.7%1,638,78113.52
15 May 202622,767,878-8.5%2,062,97911.04
30 April 202624,874,249+5.8%4,282,3215.81
15 April 202623,499,597+4.0%3,367,1166.98
31 March 202622,607,324+4.1%3,387,8866.67
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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