NSC short interest
Norfolk Southern · settlement of Oct 30, 2026
As of Oct 30, 2026, 5.9M NSC shares were sold short, down 17.3% from the Oct 15, 2026 count. At the stock's average daily volume, that is 6.4 days to cover.
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- Shares sold short
- 5.9M5,903,083
- Change
- −17.3%from 7.1M
- Of shares outstanding
- 2.63%#2,546 of 3,636 stocks measured
- Days to cover
- 6.4at the average daily volume
- Average daily volume
- 922,005shares, as FINRA reports it
- Most in 16 settlements
- 9.7MApr 30, 2026
Every settlement
16 settlements, newest first| Settlement | Shares short | Change | Avg daily volume | Days to cover |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 30, 2026 | 5,903,083 | −17.3% | 922,005 | 6.4 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | 7,136,902 | −0.2% | 694,822 | 10 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | 7,152,583 | −6.1% | 938,025 | 7.6 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 7,619,508 | +32.8% | 1,235,933 | 6.2 |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 5,736,781 | −21.4% | 1,165,337 | 4.9 |
| Aug 14, 2026 | 7,296,473 | −4.3% | 1,123,894 | 6.5 |
| Jul 31, 2026 | 7,624,518 | −7.8% | 1,392,532 | 5.5 |
| Jul 15, 2026 | 8,266,038 | −3.1% | 836,833 | 9.9 |
| Jun 30, 2026 | 8,529,961 | +4.0% | 1,310,911 | 6.5 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 8,202,408 | +0.5% | 952,605 | 8.6 |
| May 29, 2026 | 8,160,523 | +13.7% | 1,495,677 | 5.5 |
| May 15, 2026 | 7,179,711 | −26.2% | 1,053,247 | 6.8 |
| Apr 30, 2026 | 9,724,245 | +12.7% | 1,187,453 | 8.2 |
| Apr 15, 2026 | 8,631,948 | +2.0% | 1,484,061 | 5.8 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 8,466,072 | −3.0% | 1,300,830 | 6.5 |
| Mar 13, 2026 | 8,726,471 | — | 1,385,055 | 6.3 |
Cost to borrow
Read 12:09 PM ET, Nov 11, 2026Borrowing NSC to sell short costs 0.25% a year at Interactive Brokers, which has 2,800,000 shares left to lend. The hardest stocks to borrow.
Fails to deliver
SEC files to Oct 14, 2026| Settlement date | Shares failing | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2026 | 10 | $321.14 | $3K |
| Oct 6, 2026 | 1 | $316.23 | $316 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | 6 | $313.00 | $2K |
| Aug 24, 2026 | 3,199 | $350.72 | $1.1M |
| Aug 20, 2026 | 85 | $345.71 | $29K |
| Aug 13, 2026 | 8,037 | $335.41 | $2.7M |
| Aug 6, 2026 | 3,722 | $341.74 | $1.3M |
| Aug 5, 2026 | 121 | $341.27 | $41K |
| Aug 3, 2026 | 6,101 | $335.48 | $2.0M |
| Jul 24, 2026 | 14,745 | $348.55 | $5.1M |
| Jul 15, 2026 | 1 | $326.83 | $327 |
| Jul 2, 2026 | 1 | $318.99 | $319 |
| Jul 1, 2026 | 296 | $314.59 | $93K |
| Jun 25, 2026 | 1 | $303.82 | $304 |
| Jun 24, 2026 | 4 | $303.39 | $1K |
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.