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KOHLS Corp

KSS
Exchange
NYSE
Industry
Retail-Department Stores
SEC CIK
0000885639

In the last 90 days, KOHLS Corp insiders filed 0 open-market purchases and 2 sales; 371 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $2.13B 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
33.7M
Shares, settlement Oct 30, 2026
Change
+993.8K
+3.0% vs. Oct 15, 2026
Days to cover
7.64
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
4.41M
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 31, 2024: 35,495,783 sharesNov 15, 2024: 38,054,077 sharesNov 29, 2024: 41,546,219 sharesDec 13, 2024: 50,744,683 sharesDec 31, 2024: 44,297,243 sharesJan 15, 2025: 45,009,189 sharesJan 31, 2025: 43,336,413 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 46,960,848 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 54,425,351 sharesMar 14, 2025: 48,999,666 sharesMar 31, 2025: 46,610,081 sharesApr 15, 2025: 52,073,488 sharesApr 30, 2025: 55,086,219 sharesMay 15, 2025: 57,501,919 sharesMay 30, 2025: 51,247,645 sharesJun 13, 2025: 50,478,730 sharesJun 30, 2025: 53,012,353 sharesJul 15, 2025: 49,805,432 sharesJul 31, 2025: 34,672,190 sharesAug 15, 2025: 35,222,522 sharesAug 29, 2025: 31,807,063 sharesSep 15, 2025: 32,685,533 sharesSep 30, 2025: 31,991,412 sharesOct 15, 2025: 34,523,090 sharesOct 31, 2025: 29,292,522 sharesNov 14, 2025: 27,806,482 sharesNov 28, 2025: 28,584,169 sharesDec 15, 2025: 27,315,465 sharesDec 31, 2025: 29,006,523 sharesJan 15, 2026: 29,116,589 sharesJan 30, 2026: 27,438,388 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 26,769,781 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 26,493,213 sharesMar 13, 2026: 28,267,280 sharesMar 31, 2026: 30,528,505 sharesApr 15, 2026: 29,580,470 sharesApr 30, 2026: 26,114,402 sharesMay 15, 2026: 25,761,791 sharesMay 29, 2026: 24,381,478 sharesJun 15, 2026: 30,054,737 sharesJun 30, 2026: 29,868,325 sharesJul 15, 2026: 30,390,317 sharesJul 31, 2026: 30,858,309 sharesAug 14, 2026: 29,840,650 sharesAug 31, 2026: 30,692,752 sharesSep 15, 2026: 33,349,657 sharesSep 30, 2026: 31,084,645 sharesOct 15, 2026: 32,691,760 sharesOct 30, 2026: 33,685,578 shares
Short interest in KSS by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 30, 202633.7M+993.8K+3.0%4.41M7.64
Oct 15, 202632.7M+1.61M+5.2%4.41M7.41
Sep 30, 202631.1M−2.27M−6.8%3.90M7.96
Sep 15, 202633.3M+2.66M+8.7%3.86M8.64
Aug 31, 202630.7M+852.1K+2.9%5.57M5.51
Aug 14, 202629.8M−1.02M−3.3%3.21M9.30
Jul 31, 202630.9M+468.0K+1.5%3.24M9.52
Jul 15, 202630.4M+522.0K+1.8%3.73M8.16
Jun 30, 202629.9M−186.4K−0.6%5.46M5.47
Jun 15, 202630.1M+5.67M+23.3%5.85M5.14
May 29, 202624.4M−1.38M−5.4%7.15M3.41
May 15, 202625.8M−352.6K−1.4%4.30M5.99
Apr 30, 202626.1M−3.47M−11.7%4.52M5.78
Apr 15, 202629.6M−948.0K−3.1%3.92M7.54
Mar 31, 202630.5M+2.26M+8.0%5.52M5.53
Mar 13, 202628.3M+1.77M+6.7%7.71M3.66
Feb 27, 202626.5M−276.6K−1.0%3.37M7.86
Feb 13, 202626.8M−668.6K−2.4%3.72M7.19
Jan 30, 202627.4M−1.68M−5.8%3.38M8.12
Jan 15, 202629.1M+110.1K+0.4%3.68M7.92
Dec 31, 202529.0M+1.69M+6.2%3.60M8.06
Dec 15, 202527.3M−1.27M−4.4%4.64M5.89
Nov 28, 202528.6M+777.7K+2.8%9.70M2.95
Nov 14, 202527.8M−1.49M−5.1%4.17M6.67
Oct 31, 202529.3M−5.23M−15.2%3.85M7.61
Oct 15, 202534.5M+2.53M+7.9%4.71M7.33
Sep 30, 202532.0M−694.1K−2.1%6.45M4.96
Sep 15, 202532.7M+878.5K+2.8%5.01M6.53
Aug 29, 202531.8M−3.42M−9.7%11.6M2.75
Aug 15, 202535.2M+550.3K+1.6%6.82M5.16
Jul 31, 202534.7M−15.1M−30.4%30.3M1.14
Jul 15, 202549.8M−3.21M−6.1%7.53M6.61
Jun 30, 202553.0M+2.53M+5.0%7.94M6.68
Jun 13, 202550.5M−768.9K−1.5%8.29M6.09
May 30, 202551.2M−6.25M−10.9%12.0M4.28
May 15, 202557.5M+2.42M+4.4%10.0M5.74
Apr 30, 202555.1M+3.01M+5.8%9.41M5.85
Apr 15, 202552.1M+5.46M+11.7%16.7M3.13
Mar 31, 202546.6M−2.39M−4.9%11.2M4.15
Mar 14, 202549.0M−5.43M−10.0%18.0M2.72
Feb 28, 202554.4M+7.46M+15.9%7.60M7.16
Feb 14, 202547.0M+3.62M+8.4%7.77M6.04
Jan 31, 202543.3M−1.67M−3.7%6.46M6.71
Jan 15, 202545.0M+711.9K+1.6%7.47M6.02
Dec 31, 202444.3M−6.45M−12.7%9.42M4.70
Dec 13, 202450.7M+9.20M+22.1%10.8M4.70
Nov 29, 202441.5M+3.49M+9.2%16.7M2.48
Nov 15, 202438.1M+2.56M+7.2%7.21M5.28
Oct 31, 202435.5M+555.5K+1.6%5.40M6.58

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 KSS by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Oct 14, 20263,738$21.10$78.9K
Oct 13, 20261,697$21.17$35.9K
Oct 9, 2026352$20.11$7.08K
Oct 8, 2026352$20.12$7.08K
Oct 6, 20262,637$19.53$51.5K
Oct 5, 202610,665$18.81$200.6K
Oct 2, 20261$18.92$18.92
Sep 28, 2026955$17.90$17.1K
Sep 25, 20264,019$17.24$69.3K
Sep 17, 20261,034$16.46$17.0K
Sep 16, 20261,927$16.36$31.5K
Sep 15, 202656,079$17.17$962.9K
Sep 14, 2026676$17.23$11.6K
Aug 12, 2026145$18.49$2.68K
Aug 11, 2026933$19.03$17.8K
Aug 10, 202653$19.30$1.02K
Aug 6, 20261,105$19.66$21.7K
Aug 4, 2026109,452$20.10$2.20M
Aug 3, 2026111,532$19.14$2.13M
Jul 29, 20261,619$19.09$30.9K
Jul 28, 2026415$18.49$7.67K
Jul 27, 2026324$17.94$5.81K
Jul 22, 20262,200$18.13$39.9K
Jul 21, 20263,977$17.57$69.9K
Jul 17, 202618,252$17.49$319.2K
Jul 16, 20262,005$17.10$34.3K
Jul 1, 202627$17.72$478.44
Jun 30, 2026207$18.45$3.82K
Jun 29, 2026412,347$19.26$7.94M
Jun 24, 2026377$17.53$6.61K

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 KSS by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Nov 10, 2026378,5531,928774,27148.9%
Nov 9, 2026730,1711041,438,61950.8%
Nov 6, 2026389,6241898,41143.4%
Nov 5, 2026520,93512,1771,390,04837.5%
Nov 4, 2026616,6184,0351,485,03341.5%
Nov 3, 2026507,554517955,40053.1%
Nov 2, 2026583,6316381,107,42052.7%
Oct 30, 2026497,41210,7801,043,25847.7%
Oct 29, 2026630,055940973,82364.7%
Oct 28, 2026417,594482692,53560.3%
Oct 27, 2026541,5802,5731,162,38846.6%
Oct 26, 20261,073,5012,5631,736,67661.8%
Oct 23, 2026746,7354681,512,11249.4%
Oct 22, 20261,617,96921,1983,158,33951.2%
Oct 21, 20261,017,9361,0771,628,19562.5%
Oct 20, 2026603,1561,3341,427,00342.3%
Oct 19, 2026565,558100985,13857.4%
Oct 16, 2026693,2243,7411,203,26157.6%
Oct 15, 2026828,7875,6771,506,00455.0%
Oct 14, 2026659,49101,177,78656.0%
Oct 13, 20261,187,55201,896,81662.6%
Oct 12, 20261,497,74102,218,45167.5%
Oct 9, 2026663,6712,0391,276,35052.0%
Oct 8, 2026707,4657,4181,347,47652.5%
Oct 7, 2026900,8183,3191,656,67854.4%
Oct 6, 2026706,4122,9381,295,02254.5%
Oct 5, 2026948,986651,675,06956.7%
Oct 2, 2026902,75715,3511,436,78762.8%
Oct 1, 2026956,2299,9631,735,84655.1%
Sep 30, 2026856,990961,433,59359.8%

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 KSS
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 5, 2026T24,528,93072,9073,163,85516,04258.9%
Sep 28, 2026T24,431,73081,7233,140,89714,92958.5%
Sep 21, 2026T24,560,45479,4492,960,33316,83560.6%
Sep 14, 2026T23,542,39873,6483,001,94715,73754.1%
Sep 7, 2026T23,195,88259,9762,587,35614,70055.3%
Aug 31, 2026T24,729,86483,1664,669,34020,34250.3%
Aug 24, 2026T28,638,356113,7206,140,76028,95158.4%
Aug 17, 2026T24,600,97377,9103,222,74716,92558.8%
Aug 10, 2026T23,593,49165,1282,175,04311,84162.3%
Aug 3, 2026T23,576,73570,8332,413,13214,04759.7%
Jul 27, 2026T24,187,16483,9683,127,67213,32357.2%
Jul 20, 2026T22,992,70658,8142,030,71812,65359.6%