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Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.

ESPRDelisted Jul 13, 2026
Industry
Pharmaceutical Preparations
SEC CIK
0001434868

Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. was delisted on Jul 13, 2026; its insiders filed their last Form 4 on Jul 13, 2026; 192 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $646.8M in total; Soros Fund Management was the only superinvestor holding 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
17.4M
Shares, settlement Jun 30, 2026
Change
−3.32M
−16.0% vs. Jun 15, 2026
Days to cover
1.74
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
10.0M
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Jul 15, 2024: 39,417,019 sharesJul 31, 2024: 38,135,175 sharesAug 15, 2024: 41,734,471 sharesAug 30, 2024: 40,438,871 sharesSep 13, 2024: 38,090,309 sharesSep 30, 2024: 37,467,113 sharesOct 15, 2024: 35,388,048 sharesOct 31, 2024: 33,463,960 sharesNov 15, 2024: 31,247,976 sharesNov 29, 2024: 30,492,669 sharesDec 13, 2024: 25,474,270 sharesDec 31, 2024: 32,346,325 sharesJan 15, 2025: 33,978,548 sharesJan 31, 2025: 31,243,405 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 28,100,794 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 29,144,177 sharesMar 14, 2025: 28,900,005 sharesMar 31, 2025: 28,023,201 sharesApr 15, 2025: 30,028,700 sharesApr 30, 2025: 29,864,966 sharesMay 15, 2025: 27,945,316 sharesMay 30, 2025: 26,342,829 sharesJun 13, 2025: 24,113,664 sharesJun 30, 2025: 24,026,028 sharesJul 15, 2025: 22,097,452 sharesJul 31, 2025: 23,127,867 sharesAug 15, 2025: 22,636,104 sharesAug 29, 2025: 22,348,965 sharesSep 15, 2025: 24,801,814 sharesSep 30, 2025: 27,694,381 sharesOct 15, 2025: 24,416,434 sharesOct 31, 2025: 25,922,850 sharesNov 14, 2025: 24,958,080 sharesNov 28, 2025: 28,728,824 sharesDec 15, 2025: 28,827,852 sharesDec 31, 2025: 33,933,166 sharesJan 15, 2026: 37,439,023 sharesJan 30, 2026: 33,452,416 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 33,567,190 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 33,525,831 sharesMar 13, 2026: 33,731,852 sharesMar 31, 2026: 33,129,776 sharesApr 15, 2026: 31,830,830 sharesApr 30, 2026: 36,425,941 sharesMay 15, 2026: 20,207,976 sharesMay 29, 2026: 18,714,926 sharesJun 15, 2026: 20,719,122 sharesJun 30, 2026: 17,401,689 shares
Short interest in ESPR by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Jun 30, 202617.4M−3.32M−16.0%10.0M1.74
Jun 15, 202620.7M+2.00M+10.7%11.8M1.76
May 29, 202618.7M−1.49M−7.4%6.98M2.68
May 15, 202620.2M−16.2M−44.5%31.8M1.00
Apr 30, 202636.4M+4.60M+14.4%7.03M5.18
Apr 15, 202631.8M−1.30M−3.9%8.54M3.73
Mar 31, 202633.1M−602.1K−1.8%4.75M6.98
Mar 13, 202633.7M+206.0K+0.6%6.68M5.05
Feb 27, 202633.5M−41.4K−0.1%2.47M13.60
Feb 13, 202633.6M+114.8K+0.3%3.58M9.38
Jan 30, 202633.5M−3.99M−10.7%5.13M6.52
Jan 15, 202637.4M+3.51M+10.3%6.37M5.88
Dec 31, 202533.9M+5.11M+17.7%4.90M6.92
Dec 15, 202528.8M+99.0K+0.3%5.30M5.44
Nov 28, 202528.7M+3.77M+15.1%7.85M3.66
Nov 14, 202525.0M−964.8K−3.7%7.01M3.56
Oct 31, 202525.9M+1.51M+6.2%4.88M5.31
Oct 15, 202524.4M−3.28M−11.8%10.3M2.37
Sep 30, 202527.7M+2.89M+11.7%6.63M4.18
Sep 15, 202524.8M+2.45M+11.0%7.42M3.34
Aug 29, 202522.3M−287.1K−1.3%4.65M4.81
Aug 15, 202522.6M−491.8K−2.1%5.82M3.89
Jul 31, 202523.1M+1.03M+4.7%6.47M3.57
Jul 15, 202522.1M−1.93M−8.0%3.16M6.98
Jun 30, 202524.0M−87.6K−0.4%2.91M8.27
Jun 13, 202524.1M−2.23M−8.5%4.03M5.98
May 30, 202526.3M−1.60M−5.7%4.79M5.50
May 15, 202527.9M−1.92M−6.4%7.21M3.88
Apr 30, 202529.9M−163.7K−0.6%4.55M6.57
Apr 15, 202530.0M+2.01M+7.2%6.84M4.39
Mar 31, 202528.0M−876.8K−3.0%3.82M7.34
Mar 14, 202528.9M−244.2K−0.8%5.42M5.33
Feb 28, 202529.1M+1.04M+3.7%2.54M11.49
Feb 14, 202528.1M−3.14M−10.1%2.86M9.82
Jan 31, 202531.2M−2.74M−8.1%5.47M5.71
Jan 15, 202534.0M+1.63M+5.1%4.87M6.98
Dec 31, 202432.3M+6.87M+27.0%4.49M7.20
Dec 13, 202425.5M−5.02M−16.5%12.2M2.08
Nov 29, 202430.5M−755.3K−2.4%4.84M6.30
Nov 15, 202431.2M−2.22M−6.6%6.43M4.86
Oct 31, 202433.5M−1.92M−5.4%2.82M11.87
Oct 15, 202435.4M−2.08M−5.6%3.63M9.76
Sep 30, 202437.5M−623.2K−1.6%2.94M12.75
Sep 13, 202438.1M−2.35M−5.8%2.85M13.36
Aug 30, 202440.4M−1.30M−3.1%3.43M11.80
Aug 15, 202441.7M+3.60M+9.4%5.43M7.69
Jul 31, 202438.1M−1.28M−3.3%4.52M8.44
Jul 15, 202439.4M+15.9M+67.4%7.18M5.49

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 ESPR by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Jul 9, 202643,283$3.19$138.1K
Jul 8, 202653,179$3.16$168.0K
Jul 7, 2026400$3.15$1.26K
Jul 6, 20269,400$3.16$29.7K
Jun 30, 20266,561$3.15$20.7K
Jun 25, 20265,856$3.15$18.4K
Jun 24, 202634,600$3.16$109.3K
Jun 23, 2026300$3.16$948
Jun 18, 202652,090$3.17$165.1K
Jun 17, 20264,743$3.16$15.0K
Jun 15, 20262,958$3.15$9.32K
Jun 12, 2026225,274$3.15$709.6K
Jun 3, 2026101,265$3.14$318.0K
Jun 2, 20264,576$3.13$14.3K
Jun 1, 202612,121$3.13$37.9K
May 28, 20265,817$3.13$18.2K
May 27, 202627,076$3.12$84.5K
May 20, 2026756,488$3.13$2.37M
May 19, 2026584$3.13$1.83K
May 18, 202625,583$3.12$79.8K
May 15, 20263,116$3.12$9.72K
May 14, 20263,490$3.12$10.9K
May 13, 2026180,408$3.13$564.7K
May 12, 202610,955$3.13$34.3K
May 11, 20267,500$3.14$23.6K
May 8, 202636,461$3.14$114.5K
May 7, 2026244,391$3.15$769.8K
May 6, 2026234,738$3.12$732.4K
May 5, 2026351,980$3.12$1.10M
May 4, 20262,144,413$3.11$6.67M

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 ESPR by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Jul 10, 20262,481,02714,94518,821,87513.2%
Jul 9, 202610,671,452136,72130,117,19735.4%
Jul 8, 202612,603,6511,10137,703,49833.4%
Jul 7, 20261,573,7477004,624,32834.0%
Jul 6, 20261,729,50504,818,60835.9%
Jul 2, 20261,335,4542,5404,647,77028.7%
Jul 1, 20261,214,41903,233,11837.6%
Jun 30, 20261,083,18202,940,80936.8%
Jun 29, 20261,150,9179763,715,38531.0%
Jun 26, 20261,749,99204,837,33236.2%
Jun 25, 20261,483,98104,042,55436.7%
Jun 24, 20262,402,7501,0006,731,36735.7%
Jun 23, 20261,536,8711474,168,36536.9%
Jun 22, 20261,574,16606,630,61623.7%
Jun 18, 20261,697,9491,12013,979,60612.1%
Jun 17, 20265,095,8545,7829,934,53151.3%
Jun 16, 20261,245,89905,053,60824.7%
Jun 15, 20261,769,6826,4555,602,68431.6%
Jun 12, 20262,875,219507,231,29039.8%
Jun 11, 20262,719,44007,277,26237.4%
Jun 10, 20261,814,42505,375,27333.8%
Jun 9, 20261,919,0702,8115,121,38937.5%
Jun 8, 20264,547,04308,408,17254.1%
Jun 5, 20263,380,58318,8696,389,78052.9%
Jun 4, 20261,622,3418,5684,853,85533.4%
Jun 3, 20262,459,228010,874,99622.6%
Jun 2, 20262,396,00925,3336,373,15537.6%
Jun 1, 20261,865,4185,6097,401,39725.2%
May 29, 20261,156,00253,3503,243,61835.6%
May 28, 20261,121,62103,831,81429.3%

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 ESPR
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Jul 6, 2026T235,831,23251,87162,943,216503,01136.3%
Jun 29, 2026T23,254,16620,70211,353,847375,36822.3%
Jun 22, 2026T23,260,72718,57723,965,624781,18712.0%
Jun 15, 2026T24,571,86719,20934,246,692568,26511.8%
Jun 8, 2026T25,660,61325,47428,061,095707,43716.8%
Jun 1, 2026T210,136,96936,42644,273,248565,94918.6%
May 25, 2026T23,272,88619,08611,812,112333,19321.7%
May 18, 2026T25,676,48231,51316,515,379415,30025.6%
May 11, 2026T218,242,10237,63222,191,747324,49645.1%
May 4, 2026T220,424,15766,27035,743,290203,02536.4%
Apr 27, 2026T228,361,20459,45073,473,51969,31827.9%
Apr 20, 2026T26,400,42123,10314,344,10018,83330.9%