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Commerce Bancshares Inc

CBSH
Exchange
Nasdaq
Industry
State Commercial Banks
SEC CIK
0000022356

In the last 90 days, Commerce Bancshares Inc insiders filed 0 open-market purchases and 2 sales; 512 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $6.30B in total; no superinvestor holds it.

Four kinds of short-selling data, each measuring something different:

  • Short interest: shares sold short and not yet bought back, as of a settlement date. FINRA publishes it twice a month, about eight business days after the settlement date.
  • Daily short volume: shares sold short each day in off-exchange trades reported to FINRA. It counts trades, not open positions, and is published the next day.
  • Fails-to-deliver: shares not delivered by the settlement date. The SEC publishes them twice a month, about two weeks late.
  • ATS (dark pool) volume: weekly volume on alternative trading systems and other off-exchange venues. FINRA publishes it two to four weeks after the week.

More in the glossary.

Short interest

Shares sold short and not yet bought back, from FINRA, on every settlement date in the last two years.

Short interest
6.72M
Shares, settlement Oct 30, 2026
Change
+94.9K
+1.4% vs. Oct 15, 2026
Days to cover
6.76
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
993.7K
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 31, 2024: 2,167,161 sharesNov 15, 2024: 2,068,645 sharesNov 29, 2024: 2,110,641 sharesDec 13, 2024: 2,506,989 sharesDec 31, 2024: 2,525,136 sharesJan 15, 2025: 2,642,853 sharesJan 31, 2025: 2,641,705 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 2,451,824 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 2,299,378 sharesMar 14, 2025: 2,552,905 sharesMar 31, 2025: 2,656,918 sharesApr 15, 2025: 3,081,236 sharesApr 30, 2025: 2,965,295 sharesMay 15, 2025: 2,889,786 sharesMay 30, 2025: 3,005,762 sharesJun 13, 2025: 2,865,890 sharesJun 30, 2025: 3,524,409 sharesJul 15, 2025: 4,155,476 sharesJul 31, 2025: 4,445,857 sharesAug 15, 2025: 4,251,803 sharesAug 29, 2025: 4,452,960 sharesSep 15, 2025: 4,402,842 sharesSep 30, 2025: 4,666,302 sharesOct 15, 2025: 4,908,868 sharesOct 31, 2025: 4,821,752 sharesNov 14, 2025: 4,816,442 sharesNov 28, 2025: 4,975,358 sharesDec 15, 2025: 5,208,475 sharesDec 31, 2025: 5,439,238 sharesJan 15, 2026: 4,513,183 sharesJan 30, 2026: 4,031,129 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 4,928,365 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 4,535,796 sharesMar 13, 2026: 4,725,569 sharesMar 31, 2026: 5,593,431 sharesApr 15, 2026: 5,217,186 sharesApr 30, 2026: 5,153,815 sharesMay 15, 2026: 5,679,726 sharesMay 29, 2026: 6,122,088 sharesJun 15, 2026: 6,972,250 sharesJun 30, 2026: 6,858,417 sharesJul 15, 2026: 6,838,218 sharesJul 31, 2026: 6,606,521 sharesAug 14, 2026: 6,298,940 sharesAug 31, 2026: 6,556,892 sharesSep 15, 2026: 6,413,757 sharesSep 30, 2026: 6,495,220 sharesOct 15, 2026: 6,624,666 sharesOct 30, 2026: 6,719,610 shares
Short interest in CBSH by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 30, 20266.72M+94.9K+1.4%993.7K6.76
Oct 15, 20266.62M+129.4K+2.0%854.7K7.75
Sep 30, 20266.50M+81.5K+1.3%1.15M5.66
Sep 15, 20266.41M−143.1K−2.2%933.5K6.87
Aug 31, 20266.56M+258.0K+4.1%860.9K7.62
Aug 14, 20266.30M−307.6K−4.7%816.2K7.72
Jul 31, 20266.61M−231.7K−3.4%1.30M5.10
Jul 15, 20266.84M−20.2K−0.3%1.14M5.98
Jun 30, 20266.86M−113.8K−1.6%1.48M4.62
Jun 15, 20266.97M+850.2K+13.9%1.33M5.26
May 29, 20266.12M+442.4K+7.8%1.03M5.97
May 15, 20265.68M+525.9K+10.2%1.13M5.03
Apr 30, 20265.15M−63.4K−1.2%1.40M3.69
Apr 15, 20265.22M−376.2K−6.7%1.00M5.21
Mar 31, 20265.59M+867.9K+18.4%1.34M4.18
Mar 13, 20264.73M+189.8K+4.2%1.38M3.42
Feb 27, 20264.54M−392.6K−8.0%1.34M3.39
Feb 13, 20264.93M+897.2K+22.3%1.37M3.60
Jan 30, 20264.03M−482.1K−10.7%1.45M2.77
Jan 15, 20264.51M−926.1K−17.0%1.08M4.16
Dec 31, 20255.44M+230.8K+4.4%1.01M5.41
Dec 15, 2025Split5.21M+233.1K+4.7%1.12M4.67
Nov 28, 20254.98M+158.9K+3.3%1.15M4.32
Nov 14, 20254.82M−5.31K−0.1%1.03M4.67
Oct 31, 20254.82M−87.1K−1.8%1.27M3.80
Oct 15, 20254.91M+242.6K+5.2%914.1K5.37
Sep 30, 20254.67M+263.5K+6.0%950.4K4.91
Sep 15, 20254.40M−50.1K−1.1%985.3K4.47
Aug 29, 20254.45M+201.2K+4.7%812.8K5.48
Aug 15, 20254.25M−194.1K−4.4%580.3K7.33
Jul 31, 20254.45M+290.4K+7.0%965.7K4.60
Jul 15, 20254.16M+631.1K+17.9%755.3K5.50
Jun 30, 20253.52M+658.5K+23.0%858.8K4.10
Jun 13, 20252.87M−139.9K−4.7%492.5K5.82
May 30, 20253.01M+116.0K+4.0%615.7K4.88
May 15, 20252.89M−75.5K−2.6%387.3K7.46
Apr 30, 20252.97M−115.9K−3.8%646.3K4.59
Apr 15, 20253.08M+424.3K+16.0%757.0K4.07
Mar 31, 20252.66M+104.0K+4.1%799.6K3.32
Mar 14, 20252.55M+253.5K+11.0%630.8K4.05
Feb 28, 20252.30M−152.4K−6.2%492.4K4.67
Feb 14, 20252.45M−189.9K−7.2%492.1K4.98
Jan 31, 20252.64M−1.15K0.0%574.6K4.60
Jan 15, 20252.64M+117.7K+4.7%494.9K5.34
Dec 31, 20242.53M+18.1K+0.7%522.8K4.83
Dec 13, 2024Split2.51M+396.3K+18.8%436.1K5.75
Nov 29, 20242.11M+42.0K+2.0%485.2K4.35
Nov 15, 20242.07M−98.5K−4.6%591.1K3.50
Oct 31, 20242.17M+520.7K+31.6%668.7K3.24

Fails-to-deliver

Shares that weren't delivered by the settlement date, from the SEC, for the last 30 dates with fails. The price is the previous day's closing price published by the SEC.

Fails-to-deliver in CBSH by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Sep 30, 20261,224$55.33$67.7K
Sep 25, 202634$55.76$1.90K
Sep 17, 20261$57.28$57.28
Sep 14, 202639$58.25$2.27K
Sep 1, 20266,660$57.71$384.3K
Aug 18, 2026310$59.71$18.5K
Aug 3, 20261,892$59.27$112.1K
Jul 27, 20262,024$59.09$119.6K
Jul 23, 2026500$58.70$29.4K
Jul 17, 2026450$59.40$26.7K
Jul 8, 202645$58.84$2.65K
Jul 7, 20261,803$58.74$105.9K
Jun 30, 20261,816$58.09$105.5K
Jun 24, 2026300$55.96$16.8K
Jun 15, 20261,131$55.82$63.1K
Jun 4, 202653,255$51.36$2.74M
May 1, 202636$52.03$1.87K
Apr 27, 202626$50.56$1.31K
Apr 24, 202638$51.57$1.96K
Apr 14, 2026384$50.91$19.5K
Mar 27, 2026424$48.99$20.8K
Mar 25, 2026109$48.44$5.28K
Mar 23, 20266$47.68$286.08
Mar 19, 202618,336$47.50$871.0K
Mar 5, 20266,010$52.25$314.0K
Mar 2, 20261,243$50.99$63.4K
Feb 24, 202610$52.24$522.4
Feb 20, 202629,483$53.68$1.58M
Feb 17, 2026577$53.60$30.9K
Feb 11, 202663$54.91$3.46K

Daily short volume

Off-exchange short-sale volume, not short interest: shares sold short each day in trades reported to FINRA, for the last 30 trading days.

The short volume ratio isn't a sentiment gauge: market makers sell short to fill buy orders and to hedge, so short sales are usually about half of off-exchange volume.

Off-exchange short volume in CBSH by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Nov 10, 202677,11583223,35934.5%
Nov 9, 2026162,346119341,12247.6%
Nov 6, 2026117,65633249,57447.1%
Nov 5, 2026122,56224260,51847.0%
Nov 4, 2026183,741210321,73657.1%
Nov 3, 2026152,994215296,83951.5%
Nov 2, 2026238,207443371,67964.1%
Oct 30, 2026121,506712274,16344.3%
Oct 29, 202671,836461195,75336.7%
Oct 28, 2026170,7710412,55041.4%
Oct 27, 2026110,51454284,35638.9%
Oct 26, 202686,237170236,74636.4%
Oct 23, 2026131,4595249,92352.6%
Oct 22, 2026134,469148356,24437.7%
Oct 21, 2026163,062822312,01252.3%
Oct 20, 2026237,1980404,48458.6%
Oct 19, 2026146,859115267,45254.9%
Oct 16, 2026178,94943324,73655.1%
Oct 15, 2026125,9850268,61846.9%
Oct 14, 2026120,065467241,81849.7%
Oct 13, 2026116,0271,032237,28948.9%
Oct 12, 202696,637196206,14246.9%
Oct 9, 2026101,25016192,54952.6%
Oct 8, 202678,6562182,23343.2%
Oct 7, 202687,74713250,91435.0%
Oct 6, 202669,12411177,12539.0%
Oct 5, 202693,011100199,64746.6%
Oct 2, 2026108,181134235,97445.8%
Oct 1, 2026100,328133231,52343.3%
Sep 30, 2026121,98157312,04439.1%

ATS (dark pool) volume

Weekly volume on alternative trading systems (ATS) and other off-exchange (OTC) venues, from FINRA, for the last 12 weeks. ATS share is ATS volume ÷ (ATS + OTC volume), not a share of all trading.

Weekly ATS and OTC volume in CBSH
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 19, 2026T11,254,83534,388437,5168,90274.1%
Oct 12, 2026T11,014,66430,865360,9158,73473.8%
Oct 5, 2026T1759,51622,660511,4148,35859.8%
Sep 28, 2026T1985,06232,969408,9178,12170.7%
Sep 21, 2026T11,356,79343,192753,1198,94464.3%
Sep 14, 2026T11,206,24437,1541,255,0027,84149.0%
Sep 7, 2026T1782,60226,165539,7586,80259.2%
Aug 31, 2026T1852,82828,512798,0547,54251.7%
Aug 24, 2026T1883,02128,544376,2797,99670.1%
Aug 17, 2026T11,071,39929,453539,5905,96266.5%
Aug 10, 2026T1882,15331,451305,4705,96774.3%
Aug 3, 2026T1953,11332,678324,8435,97074.6%