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Read this first: nobody can show you who is short

A 13F does not disclose short positions. Short sales are exempt from it, so no site can list a fund's shorts, including this one. Two different things are knowable and this page keeps them apart: short interest tells you how heavily a stock is shorted by the whole market and names nobody, and 13F puts tell you which named fund holds put options.

Neither one sees a swap. A fund short through total-return swaps or plain borrow appears in neither dataset, which is why Archegos was invisible until it was not. An empty put list is not evidence that nobody is betting against a name.

Most shorted

By short interest as a percent of float. Above 100% is real rather than an error: borrowed shares get sold and re-lent. Settlement July 31, 2026, so this is positioning as of that date and not today.

Symbol% of float shortShares shortDays to covervs lastPriceToday
QS
QuantumScape Corporation Class A Common Stock
113.3%
102.3M3.2-2%$6.16-3.4%
EOSE
Eos Energy Enterprises, Inc. Class A Common Stock
61.9%
115.7M4.4+9%$4.16-1.9%
TE
T1 Energy Inc.
43.4%
60.5M1.4+24%$4.79-2.2%
ONDS
Ondas Inc. Common Stock
41.8%
235.0M1.9+2%$8.91-8.8%
LENZ
LENZ Therapeutics, Inc. Common Stock
40.8%
11.3M11.8-5%$4.60-8.7%
JACK
Jack in the Box Inc.
38.5%
6.8M9.4-2%$18.76-0.1%
QXO
QXO, Inc.
37.0%
93.6M4.6-11%$14.89-0.9%
NNE
Nano Nuclear Energy Inc. Common Stock
35.0%
15.3M7.1+10%$20.52+7.9%
SERV
Serve Robotics Inc. Common Stock
32.0%
26.5M8.6+9%$4.94+2.3%
NAVI
Navient Corporation
31.7%
10.3M13.8+0%$9.24+4.5%
ARCT
Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc. Common Stock
31.6%
7.2M16.5+3%$7.86+3.4%
BBAI
BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc.
30.9%
147.5M5.7+1%$3.34+2.5%
PLAY
Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
30.5%
9.8M7.9-14%$10.63+2.5%
NVAX
Novavax Inc
30.4%
45.7M16.6+4%$8.14+2.3%
CAPR
Capricor Therapeutics Inc
29.8%
16.0M2.1+3%$4.21+0.5%
CLSK
CLEANSPARK INC
29.4%
74.0M3.3-5%$11.52-5.4%
TNGX
Tango Therapeutics, Inc.
29.2%
44.6M19.1+4%$25.65+0.3%
HRTX
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.
29.2%
43.2M24.4+1%$0.334-1.9%
CMPX
Compass Therapeutics, Inc. Common Stock
29.0%
39.9M17.6+1%$2.26-4.6%
IMRX
Immuneering Corporation Class A Common Stock
28.3%
15.4M20.4+1%$5.20+2.6%
STOK
Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. Common Stock
28.1%
15.8M27.7+1%$31.31-5.0%
RUN
Sunrun Inc
27.8%
64.7M7.2-2%$9.86+0.2%
SLS
SELLAS Life Sciences Group, Inc. Common Stock
27.6%
55.0M7.9-1%$12.36+5.0%
BYND
Beyond Meat, Inc. Common Stock
26.8%
130.5M5.5-0%$0.407-1.7%
SNDX
Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
26.7%
22.7M18.6+9%$19.08-3.6%

Being added to

Short interest rising fastest since the prior settlement, among names with a real base already on. This is fresh money taking the other side, not an old position sitting there.

Funds holding puts

Named 13F filers with put positions. Quarterly and roughly 45 days behind, so treat it as what a fund held at quarter end rather than what it holds now.

No put positions on file for the latest quarter yet.
This reflects what we have ingested, not what funds hold. Option rows were excluded from our 13F history until recently and the backfill has not completed, so read this as "not loaded" rather than "nobody is positioned against anything".

How to read these numbers

  • % of float short is the crowding. It says how much of the tradeable supply is already sold short, which is what makes covering move a price.
  • Days to cover is how many normal sessions the short base would need to buy back. A high number means the exit is narrow.
  • Exposure on a put is notional, not money at risk. A $912M put is 5,000,000 shares of exposure; the premium paid is a fraction of that and is never disclosed.
  • A crowded short is not a signal on its own. It says the disagreement is large, not who is right. Names stay heavily shorted for years.
  • Float we cannot corroborate is left blank rather than shown. A stale share count inflates the percentage badly, and a wrong 205% is worse than an honest gap.

Research and commentary, not investment advice.