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Unifirst 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 Unifirst Corp. was 941,427 shares at the 30 September 2026 settlement, up 8.0% on the previous settlement, with 2.38 days to cover at an average daily volume of 395,292 shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
30 September 2026941,427+8.0%395,2922.38
15 September 2026871,484+36.8%337,0392.59
31 August 2026637,185-2.6%243,8382.61
14 August 2026654,094-13.7%116,6305.61
31 July 2026758,293-13.5%168,0464.51
15 July 2026876,952+4.8%120,8097.26
30 June 2026836,467+55.9%227,4383.68
15 June 2026536,693+19.6%306,0511.75
29 May 2026448,664-13.5%193,1752.32
15 May 2026518,614-1.4%212,6382.44
30 April 2026525,891+5.8%194,8612.70
15 April 2026496,898+3.0%237,3802.09
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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