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Johnson & Johnson

JNJ
Exchange
NYSE
Industry
Pharmaceutical Preparations
SEC CIK
0000200406

In the last 90 days, Johnson & Johnson insiders filed 0 open-market purchases and 3 sales; 4,720 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $457.0B in total; 5 superinvestors hold it, including Markel Group and Fairfax Financial.

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.

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Short interest

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

Short interest
16.8M
Shares, settlement Oct 15, 2026
Change
−5.30M
−24.0% vs. Sep 30, 2026
Days to cover
1.97
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
8.52M
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 15, 2024: 18,659,251 sharesOct 31, 2024: 18,107,294 sharesNov 15, 2024: 17,476,968 sharesNov 29, 2024: 18,540,719 sharesDec 13, 2024: 17,572,993 sharesDec 31, 2024: 16,457,492 sharesJan 15, 2025: 17,202,144 sharesJan 31, 2025: 18,762,304 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 18,352,866 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 23,102,773 sharesMar 14, 2025: 24,870,261 sharesMar 31, 2025: 19,147,099 sharesApr 15, 2025: 21,018,445 sharesApr 30, 2025: 19,677,594 sharesMay 15, 2025: 22,801,009 sharesMay 30, 2025: 19,221,151 sharesJun 13, 2025: 16,330,615 sharesJun 30, 2025: 15,824,423 sharesJul 15, 2025: 18,272,250 sharesJul 31, 2025: 17,142,363 sharesAug 15, 2025: 18,516,906 sharesAug 29, 2025: 18,836,072 sharesSep 15, 2025: 22,053,691 sharesSep 30, 2025: 18,178,743 sharesOct 15, 2025: 20,626,892 sharesOct 31, 2025: 19,529,775 sharesNov 14, 2025: 20,122,322 sharesNov 28, 2025: 23,910,602 sharesDec 15, 2025: 23,972,906 sharesDec 31, 2025: 20,427,016 sharesJan 15, 2026: 21,326,879 sharesJan 30, 2026: 19,562,840 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 20,767,056 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 25,086,679 sharesMar 13, 2026: 23,327,094 sharesMar 31, 2026: 22,265,636 sharesApr 15, 2026: 19,671,868 sharesApr 30, 2026: 22,349,005 sharesMay 15, 2026: 23,038,990 sharesMay 29, 2026: 23,407,721 sharesJun 15, 2026: 26,689,694 sharesJun 30, 2026: 26,576,975 sharesJul 15, 2026: 27,425,456 sharesJul 31, 2026: 25,408,119 sharesAug 14, 2026: 21,591,738 sharesAug 31, 2026: 21,670,595 sharesSep 15, 2026: 21,188,522 sharesSep 30, 2026: 22,070,973 sharesOct 15, 2026: 16,766,729 shares
Short interest in JNJ by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 15, 202616.8M−5.30M−24.0%8.52M1.97
Sep 30, 202622.1M+882.5K+4.2%6.75M3.27
Sep 15, 202621.2M−482.1K−2.2%5.81M3.65
Aug 31, 202621.7M+78.9K+0.4%6.55M3.31
Aug 14, 202621.6M−3.82M−15.0%6.48M3.33
Jul 31, 202625.4M−2.02M−7.4%8.50M2.99
Jul 15, 202627.4M+848.5K+3.2%7.47M3.67
Jun 30, 202626.6M−112.7K−0.4%10.7M2.48
Jun 15, 202626.7M+3.28M+14.0%7.40M3.61
May 29, 202623.4M+368.7K+1.6%7.94M2.95
May 15, 202623.0M+690.0K+3.1%7.54M3.06
Apr 30, 202622.3M+2.68M+13.6%8.14M2.74
Apr 15, 202619.7M−2.59M−11.7%7.07M2.78
Mar 31, 202622.3M−1.06M−4.6%8.06M2.76
Mar 13, 202623.3M−1.76M−7.0%7.37M3.17
Feb 27, 202625.1M+4.32M+20.8%10.0M2.51
Feb 13, 202620.8M+1.20M+6.2%9.11M2.28
Jan 30, 202619.6M−1.76M−8.3%10.4M1.89
Jan 15, 202621.3M+899.9K+4.4%8.77M2.43
Dec 31, 202520.4M−3.55M−14.8%7.55M2.71
Dec 15, 202524.0M+62.3K+0.3%8.49M2.82
Nov 28, 202523.9M+3.79M+18.8%11.3M2.12
Nov 14, 202520.1M+592.5K+3.0%7.26M2.77
Oct 31, 202519.5M−1.10M−5.3%8.09M2.41
Oct 15, 202520.6M+2.45M+13.5%8.90M2.32
Sep 30, 202518.2M−3.87M−17.6%9.82M1.85
Sep 15, 202522.1M+3.22M+17.1%7.28M3.03
Aug 29, 202518.8M+319.2K+1.7%8.07M2.34
Aug 15, 202518.5M+1.37M+8.0%8.57M2.16
Jul 31, 202517.1M−1.13M−6.2%9.76M1.76
Jul 15, 202518.3M+2.45M+15.5%7.04M2.59
Jun 30, 202515.8M−506.2K−3.1%9.47M1.67
Jun 13, 202516.3M−2.89M−15.0%6.43M2.54
May 30, 202519.2M−3.58M−15.7%8.71M2.21
May 15, 202522.8M+3.12M+15.9%7.92M2.88
Apr 30, 202519.7M−1.34M−6.4%7.91M2.49
Apr 15, 202521.0M+1.87M+9.8%14.3M1.47
Mar 31, 202519.1M−5.72M−23.0%8.38M2.28
Mar 14, 202524.9M+1.77M+7.7%9.46M2.63
Feb 28, 202523.1M+4.75M+25.9%10.2M2.27
Feb 14, 202518.4M−409.4K−2.2%7.83M2.35
Jan 31, 202518.8M+1.56M+9.1%10.7M1.75
Jan 15, 202517.2M+744.7K+4.5%8.31M2.07
Dec 31, 202416.5M−1.12M−6.4%8.17M2.02
Dec 13, 202417.6M−967.7K−5.2%8.80M2.00
Nov 29, 202418.5M+1.06M+6.1%7.89M2.35
Nov 15, 202417.5M−630.3K−3.5%7.49M2.33
Oct 31, 202418.1M−552.0K−3.0%6.01M3.01
Oct 15, 202418.7M−1.08M−5.5%5.53M3.37

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 JNJ by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Oct 14, 2026157$248.61$39.0K
Oct 9, 2026766$256.48$196.5K
Oct 8, 20269$258.45$2.33K
Oct 6, 2026372$252.93$94.1K
Oct 5, 20262,175$256.03$556.9K
Sep 30, 2026129$267.57$34.5K
Sep 29, 20264,453$271.95$1.21M
Sep 28, 2026196$271.22$53.2K
Sep 25, 2026889$270.68$240.6K
Sep 24, 20267,954$269.17$2.14M
Sep 23, 20266,029$269.19$1.62M
Sep 22, 202699$269.47$26.7K
Sep 21, 202689,357$269.99$24.1M
Sep 17, 202661$267.28$16.3K
Sep 8, 2026991$275.23$272.8K
Sep 4, 202687$278.43$24.2K
Sep 3, 20263,068$275.21$844.3K
Sep 1, 202620$265.85$5.32K
Aug 25, 2026500$273.04$136.5K
Aug 24, 20261,175$270.24$317.5K
Aug 19, 2026290$271.11$78.6K
Aug 18, 20266$262.37$1.57K
Aug 17, 202674,693$260.35$19.4M
Aug 11, 2026381$261.81$99.7K
Aug 7, 2026576$256.98$148.0K
Aug 6, 2026220,507$257.59$56.8M
Aug 3, 20262$256.35$512.7
Jul 28, 202645,768$265.95$12.2M
Jul 22, 2026160,367$250.61$40.2M
Jul 20, 202614,539$253.04$3.68M

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 JNJ by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Nov 9, 20261,033,2894,6662,469,81041.8%
Nov 6, 20261,002,5543,3582,709,33237.0%
Nov 5, 20261,185,6277,4693,453,57534.3%
Nov 4, 2026938,2282,1354,211,58522.3%
Nov 3, 2026595,2842,4152,214,28126.9%
Nov 2, 2026848,9295,2753,311,06525.6%
Oct 30, 2026663,254262,836,36323.4%
Oct 29, 2026729,7096972,182,69933.4%
Oct 28, 2026741,2378122,491,30229.8%
Oct 27, 2026816,5543,2301,870,82243.6%
Oct 26, 2026682,1101,9591,995,97634.2%
Oct 23, 2026561,8911,0951,654,31034.0%
Oct 22, 20261,025,9901,2192,932,54635.0%
Oct 21, 2026468,0061,3301,951,27824.0%
Oct 20, 20261,025,7346,3033,203,15832.0%
Oct 19, 20261,026,7541,0372,461,39941.7%
Oct 16, 2026537,1604422,259,94623.8%
Oct 15, 20261,091,3496563,949,20427.6%
Oct 14, 20261,155,7111,1353,623,11831.9%
Oct 13, 20263,170,6454,6576,608,61648.0%
Oct 12, 2026845,2111,1141,924,48543.9%
Oct 9, 2026658,6156,2472,117,12531.1%
Oct 8, 2026697,2172,7402,100,71333.2%
Oct 7, 2026605,2822,6751,974,86830.6%
Oct 6, 2026650,4786481,903,85334.2%
Oct 5, 20261,070,3131,5072,654,49340.3%
Oct 2, 20261,559,0737133,198,51748.7%
Oct 1, 20261,076,5853552,956,50436.4%
Sep 30, 2026946,8568,0541,718,65355.1%
Sep 29, 2026824,9867,9582,019,71440.8%

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 JNJ
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 19, 2026T18,115,015144,14010,583,030299,96943.4%
Oct 12, 2026T111,662,631196,63711,424,941353,67050.5%
Oct 5, 2026T16,986,323136,2479,437,766309,33142.5%
Sep 28, 2026T17,659,553138,33611,358,612308,43840.3%
Sep 21, 2026T16,668,717116,5165,851,729281,40653.3%
Sep 14, 2026T16,163,248130,5686,542,695282,09748.5%
Sep 7, 2026T14,806,407105,4056,341,074239,78743.1%
Aug 31, 2026T16,294,673126,6228,823,104294,33541.6%
Aug 24, 2026T16,336,688125,8308,820,241285,11341.8%
Aug 17, 2026T17,463,866148,0509,316,319292,20944.5%
Aug 10, 2026T15,361,472125,7298,167,223276,88139.6%
Aug 3, 2026T17,299,419138,0628,514,139304,84146.2%