CARS short interest
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As of Oct 30, 2026, 8.1M CARS shares were sold short, down 2.0% from the Oct 15, 2026 count. At the stock's average daily volume, that is 12 days to cover.
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- Shares sold short
- 8.1M8,086,195
- Change
- −2.0%from 8.2M
- Of shares outstanding
- 15.5%#278 of 3,528 stocks measured
- Days to cover
- 12at the average daily volume
- Average daily volume
- 658,082shares, as FINRA reports it
- Most in 16 settlements
- 8.4MMar 13, 2026
Every settlement
16 settlements, newest first| Settlement | Shares short | Change | Days to cover |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2026 | 8,086,195 | −2.0% | 12 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 8,249,065 | +11.9% | 9.2 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 7,373,923 | +4.1% | 10 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 7,082,670 | +4.1% | 15 |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 6,801,313 | +9.6% | 13 |
| Aug 14, 2026 | 6,206,952 | +2.9% | 8.3 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | 6,034,309 | −7.1% | 8.8 |
| Jul 15, 2026 | 6,498,048 | −1.3% | 10 |
| Jun 30, 2026 | 6,584,939 | −5.0% | 7.3 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 6,929,811 | +5.4% | 9.7 |
| May 29, 2026 | 6,577,723 | +4.3% | 6.9 |
| May 15, 2026 | 6,306,249 | −1.2% | 6.9 |
| Apr 30, 2026 | 6,383,448 | −6.9% | 7.7 |
| Apr 15, 2026 | 6,853,107 | −6.2% | 6.3 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 7,307,418 | −13.4% | 2.9 |
| Mar 13, 2026 | 8,437,551 | First count | 4.5 |
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Cost to borrow
Read 9:34 PM ET, Nov 11, 2026Borrowing CARS to sell short costs 0.40% a year at Interactive Brokers, which has 3,800,000 shares left to lend. The hardest stocks to borrow.
Filings to sell shares
SEC filings since Feb 23, 2026No filing by CARS to sell shares in the SEC’s filings from Feb 23, 2026 to Nov 10, 2026. Every company that filed.
Fails to deliver
SEC files to Oct 14, 2026| Settlement date | Shares failing | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 13, 2026 | 201 | $9.52 | $2K |
| Oct 8, 2026 | 501 | $9.54 | $5K |
| Oct 5, 2026 | 487 | $10.03 | $5K |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 2,711 | $10.46 | $28K |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 113,595 | $10.80 | $1.2M |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 126 | $11.45 | $1K |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 53 | $11.53 | $611 |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 84 | $11.61 | $975 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 7,371 | $11.41 | $84K |
| Sep 2, 2026 | 4,078 | $11.59 | $47K |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 382 | $11.94 | $5K |
| Aug 27, 2026 | 3,003 | $11.97 | $36K |
| Aug 14, 2026 | 1,097 | $12.55 | $14K |
| Aug 10, 2026 | 1,385 | $12.32 | $17K |
| Jul 16, 2026 | 11,010 | $11.79 | $130K |
No fails reported for CARS after Oct 13, 2026; the SEC’s files run to Oct 14, 2026.
Source
Short interest is the number of shares sold short and not yet bought back. Brokers report it to FINRA for two settlement dates a month, the middle and the end, and FINRA publishes each count about a week later. It is not a daily figure: between settlements no one publishes a count. Days to cover is the short interest divided by the average daily volume FINRA reports beside it. A rising count is shown in red and a falling one in green.
Fails to deliver are the shares sellers had not delivered by the settlement date, a balance outstanding on each date, from the SEC’s fails-to-deliver files, published twice a month about two weeks after each half-month ends. The value is the shares times that day’s closing price in the same file. Every security’s fails.
The cost to borrow is Interactive Brokers’ own yearly fee to borrow the stock and the shares it has left to lend, from the file it publishes about every 15 minutes; a weekday’s last read stands for that day. It is one broker’s figure; another’s can differ. The hardest stocks to borrow.
Filings to sell shares are the company’s prospectuses for shares, shelf and other registrations, and 8-Ks reporting a private sale, from the SEC’s daily index of filings, each cover read so that bond offerings are left out. Each form links to the filing. Every listed company that filed.