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Empire Petroleum Corp

EP
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Industry
Crude Petroleum & Natural Gas
SEC CIK
0000887396

In the last 90 days, Empire Petroleum Corp insiders filed 5 open-market purchases and 1 sale; 37 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $6.14M 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
174.9K
Shares, settlement Oct 30, 2026
Change
−12.3K
−6.6% vs. Oct 15, 2026
Days to cover
3.96
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
44.2K
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 31, 2024: 1,388,121 sharesNov 15, 2024: 1,384,409 sharesNov 29, 2024: 1,356,359 sharesDec 13, 2024: 1,313,166 sharesDec 31, 2024: 1,336,747 sharesJan 15, 2025: 1,309,521 sharesJan 31, 2025: 1,295,057 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 1,281,372 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 1,293,756 sharesMar 14, 2025: 1,297,955 sharesMar 31, 2025: 1,304,931 sharesApr 15, 2025: 1,278,627 sharesApr 30, 2025: 1,258,572 sharesMay 15, 2025: 1,307,337 sharesMay 30, 2025: 1,333,781 sharesJun 13, 2025: 1,316,778 sharesJun 30, 2025: 1,302,410 sharesJul 15, 2025: 1,353,960 sharesJul 31, 2025: 1,258,796 sharesAug 15, 2025: 1,263,948 sharesAug 29, 2025: 1,252,927 sharesSep 15, 2025: 1,267,165 sharesSep 30, 2025: 1,259,651 sharesOct 15, 2025: 1,258,891 sharesOct 31, 2025: 1,300,493 sharesNov 14, 2025: 1,388,101 sharesNov 28, 2025: 1,440,777 sharesDec 15, 2025: 1,455,994 sharesDec 31, 2025: 1,468,773 sharesJan 15, 2026: 1,489,371 sharesJan 30, 2026: 1,609,512 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 1,464,388 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 1,452,959 sharesMar 13, 2026: 1,514,390 sharesMar 31, 2026: 1,575,029 sharesApr 15, 2026: 1,580,488 sharesApr 30, 2026: 1,530,948 sharesMay 15, 2026: 1,396,454 sharesMay 29, 2026: 1,305,166 sharesJun 15, 2026: 1,128,603 sharesJun 30, 2026: 660,054 sharesJul 15, 2026: 506,397 sharesJul 31, 2026: 407,220 sharesAug 14, 2026: 302,521 sharesAug 31, 2026: 246,985 sharesSep 15, 2026: 262,003 sharesSep 30, 2026: 199,364 sharesOct 15, 2026: 187,270 sharesOct 30, 2026: 174,947 shares
Short interest in EP by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 30, 2026174.9K−12.3K−6.6%44.2K3.96
Oct 15, 2026187.3K−12.1K−6.1%56.8K3.30
Sep 30, 2026199.4K−62.6K−23.9%29.8K6.69
Sep 15, 2026262.0K+15.0K+6.1%46.6K5.62
Aug 31, 2026247.0K−55.5K−18.4%33.7K7.33
Aug 14, 2026302.5K−104.7K−25.7%24.2K12.51
Jul 31, 2026407.2K−99.2K−19.6%29.4K13.87
Jul 15, 2026506.4K−153.7K−23.3%76.8K6.59
Jun 30, 2026660.1K−468.5K−41.5%288.7K2.29
Jun 15, 20261.13M−176.6K−13.5%74.6K15.14
May 29, 20261.31M−91.3K−6.5%89.3K14.62
May 15, 20261.40M−134.5K−8.8%43.3K32.23
Apr 30, 20261.53M−49.5K−3.1%89.9K17.02
Apr 15, 20261.58M+5.46K+0.4%77.9K20.30
Mar 31, 20261.58M+60.6K+4.0%94.3K16.70
Mar 13, 20261.51M+61.4K+4.2%116.4K13.01
Feb 27, 20261.45M−11.4K−0.8%33.9K42.89
Feb 13, 20261.46M−145.1K−9.0%55.1K26.56
Jan 30, 20261.61M+120.1K+8.1%78.0K20.64
Jan 15, 20261.49M+20.6K+1.4%34.9K42.67
Dec 31, 20251.47M+12.8K+0.9%47.3K31.08
Dec 15, 20251.46M+15.2K+1.1%29.5K49.39
Nov 28, 20251.44M+52.7K+3.8%28.7K50.13
Nov 14, 20251.39M+87.6K+6.7%50.6K27.42
Oct 31, 20251.30M+41.6K+3.3%38.6K33.71
Oct 15, 20251.26M−760−0.1%42.1K29.91
Sep 30, 20251.26M−7.51K−0.6%58.5K21.54
Sep 15, 20251.27M+14.2K+1.1%31.9K39.72
Aug 29, 20251.25M−11.0K−0.9%20.6K60.90
Aug 15, 20251.26M+5.15K+0.4%21.3K59.25
Jul 31, 20251.26M−95.2K−7.0%25.0K50.44
Jul 15, 20251.35M+51.5K+4.0%28.4K47.59
Jun 30, 20251.30M−14.4K−1.1%30.5K42.66
Jun 13, 20251.32M−17.0K−1.3%21.1K62.28
May 30, 20251.33M+26.4K+2.0%33.6K39.74
May 15, 20251.31M+48.8K+3.9%28.5K45.94
Apr 30, 20251.26M−20.1K−1.6%25.7K48.98
Apr 15, 20251.28M−26.3K−2.0%32.7K39.16
Mar 31, 20251.30M+6.98K+0.5%35.2K37.05
Mar 14, 20251.30M+4.20K+0.3%14.8K87.48
Feb 28, 20251.29M+12.4K+1.0%17.8K72.52
Feb 14, 20251.28M−13.7K−1.1%17.7K72.53
Jan 31, 20251.30M−14.5K−1.1%20.7K62.42
Jan 15, 20251.31M−27.2K−2.0%24.5K53.45
Dec 31, 20241.34M+23.6K+1.8%40.2K33.24
Dec 13, 20241.31M−43.2K−3.2%35.0K37.50
Nov 29, 20241.36M−28.1K−2.0%23.6K57.58
Nov 15, 20241.38M−3.71K−0.3%42.3K32.75
Oct 31, 20241.39M−29.5K−2.1%22.2K62.66

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 EP by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Sep 23, 2026478$2.23$1.07K
Sep 11, 2026559$2.41$1.35K
Sep 8, 2026138$3.13$431.94
Aug 31, 20263,977$3.23$12.8K
Aug 20, 202630$3.00$90
Aug 17, 2026227$2.78$631.06
Aug 14, 2026198$2.80$554.4
Aug 13, 2026361$2.71$978.31
Aug 11, 202698$2.76$270.48
Aug 4, 20269,562$2.52$24.1K
Jul 30, 20262,112$2.55$5.39K
Jul 29, 20261,784$2.52$4.50K
Jul 28, 20261,891$2.56$4.84K
Jul 24, 20262,057$2.64$5.43K
Jul 21, 20261,367$2.53$3.46K
Jul 20, 2026478$2.50$1.20K
Jul 14, 2026189$2.69$508.41
Jul 7, 20264,188$2.60$10.9K
Jul 1, 202611,709$2.68$31.4K
Jun 30, 202611,709$2.69$31.5K
Jun 29, 202613,686$2.61$35.7K
Jun 26, 20263,616$2.77$10.0K
Jun 25, 20268,546$2.72$23.2K
Jun 24, 20266,960$2.75$19.1K
Jun 23, 20267,811$2.78$21.7K
Jun 22, 202619,255$2.98$57.4K
Jun 18, 2026763$2.78$2.12K
Jun 17, 20262,634$2.65$6.98K
Jun 16, 202621,845$2.68$58.5K
Jun 15, 202625,357$2.91$73.8K

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 EP by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Nov 10, 20266,091016,27037.4%
Nov 9, 20266,765019,10535.4%
Nov 6, 202631,003065,26747.5%
Nov 5, 202639,626091,33843.4%
Nov 4, 202610,476036,23628.9%
Nov 3, 20268,1625,50019,30342.3%
Nov 2, 202611,4092,25043,93926.0%
Oct 30, 202649101,46033.6%
Oct 29, 20262,44806,70236.5%
Oct 28, 20262,728012,68721.5%
Oct 27, 20267,860019,80839.7%
Oct 26, 20268,300016,85249.3%
Oct 23, 20266,053026,59722.8%
Oct 22, 20262,755022,48612.3%
Oct 21, 202680206,51412.3%
Oct 20, 202612,176027,44644.4%
Oct 19, 20269,43952948,66519.4%
Oct 16, 20262,967031,3079.5%
Oct 15, 202611,3633928,23240.2%
Oct 14, 20262,904032,3919.0%
Oct 13, 20263,80506,23561.0%
Oct 12, 202619,6854447,65941.3%
Oct 9, 202619,774068,50528.9%
Oct 8, 20262,91010218,12616.1%
Oct 7, 20265,027018,43727.3%
Oct 6, 202686502,76731.3%
Oct 5, 202611,532026,25743.9%
Oct 2, 202610,33121429,07235.5%
Oct 1, 20261,181021,6615.5%
Sep 30, 20263,430010,08234.0%

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 EP
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 5, 2026T218,756320118,87963813.6%
Sep 28, 2026T27,74814662,44545311.0%
Sep 21, 2026T210,33933162,32963014.2%
Sep 14, 2026T213,55852684,53059313.8%
Sep 7, 2026T228,077843116,88660019.4%
Aug 31, 2026T229,82661849,25342137.7%
Aug 24, 2026T217,18286163,72159821.2%
Aug 17, 2026T222,29442072,35063423.6%
Aug 10, 2026T213,47944723,79634336.2%
Aug 3, 2026T216,94441938,08749430.8%
Jul 27, 2026T218,94551031,32032937.7%
Jul 20, 2026T220,92138738,12346635.4%