Short Selling by the Numbers: What the Data Actually Shows

Short selling is often misunderstood, from theories about naked shorts to coordinated attacks and phantom shares. We have written a number of times to explain how short selling actually works , how short sellers are a smaller part of the market than most people assume and how if naked shorts existed, we should see a lot more fails than the data shows. Today, we delve into the latest short interest data (spoiler alert: it’s rising for most companies). We also highlight Nasdaq’s new Short Selling Resource Hub for companies to learn more. The level of short interest as a percentage of each company's market cap shows that short interest has almost doubled since 2022.