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Scotts Miracle-Gro 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 Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. was 4.7 million shares at the 15 September 2026 settlement, up 2.2% on the previous settlement, with 6.29 days to cover at an average daily volume of 752,429 shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
15 September 20264,733,039+2.2%752,4296.29
31 August 20264,631,696+9.9%898,1115.16
14 August 20264,213,029-13.9%998,1334.22
31 July 20264,894,350-6.1%1,165,7804.20
15 July 20265,212,194-8.3%811,0016.43
30 June 20265,683,187-1.3%863,0716.58
15 June 20265,757,375+6.2%965,2425.96
29 May 20265,422,304+1.4%893,9416.07
15 May 20265,346,748+10.4%1,077,6224.96
30 April 20264,844,515+0.9%1,002,2214.83
15 April 20264,801,802-7.1%970,3864.95
31 March 20265,169,502+32.5%983,2885.26
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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