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World Acceptance 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 World Acceptance Corp. was 395,042 shares at the 30 September 2026 settlement, down 5.1% on the previous settlement, with 6.22 days to cover at an average daily volume of 63,495 shares, as reported to FINRA.

SettlementShares shortChangeAverage daily volumeDays to cover
30 September 2026395,042-5.1%63,4956.22
15 September 2026416,419-9.8%61,2116.80
31 August 2026461,409-4.4%69,2256.67
14 August 2026482,742-4.9%97,8384.93
31 July 2026507,594-13.7%162,6073.12
15 July 2026587,802+2.2%120,3914.88
30 June 2026575,387+5.3%106,8155.39
15 June 2026546,497+3.6%140,6463.89
29 May 2026527,299+0.0%148,1303.56
15 May 2026527,203+3.7%175,5473.00
30 April 2026508,292+13.1%171,1112.97
15 April 2026449,346+3.5%137,6613.26
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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