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No open-market purchases or sales by Morgan Stanley insiders were filed in the last 90 days; 2,756 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $281.8B in total; superinvestors Viking Global Investors and Soros Fund Management hold it.

Other share classesMS.PAMS.PEMS.PFMS.PIMS.PKMS.PLMS.POMS.PPMS.PQ

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
15.3M
Shares, settlement Oct 30, 2026
Change
+1.07M
+7.5% vs. Oct 15, 2026
Days to cover
2.40
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
6.40M
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 31, 2024: 14,758,218 sharesNov 15, 2024: 16,669,924 sharesNov 29, 2024: 15,327,829 sharesDec 13, 2024: 14,043,545 sharesDec 31, 2024: 13,774,572 sharesJan 15, 2025: 12,595,077 sharesJan 31, 2025: 13,751,695 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 13,131,463 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 14,288,509 sharesMar 14, 2025: 14,440,828 sharesMar 31, 2025: 14,865,938 sharesApr 15, 2025: 14,639,930 sharesApr 30, 2025: 14,806,266 sharesMay 15, 2025: 17,061,112 sharesMay 30, 2025: 14,295,818 sharesJun 13, 2025: 14,931,448 sharesJun 30, 2025: 14,767,471 sharesJul 15, 2025: 14,935,199 sharesJul 31, 2025: 14,600,737 sharesAug 15, 2025: 15,274,375 sharesAug 29, 2025: 14,685,837 sharesSep 15, 2025: 16,224,917 sharesSep 30, 2025: 14,573,942 sharesOct 15, 2025: 15,098,399 sharesOct 31, 2025: 14,187,742 sharesNov 14, 2025: 13,949,748 sharesNov 28, 2025: 13,529,580 sharesDec 15, 2025: 15,670,281 sharesDec 31, 2025: 15,749,255 sharesJan 15, 2026: 15,928,487 sharesJan 30, 2026: 14,098,500 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 16,523,284 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 15,921,158 sharesMar 13, 2026: 17,831,534 sharesMar 31, 2026: 16,282,811 sharesApr 15, 2026: 15,494,661 sharesApr 30, 2026: 14,608,865 sharesMay 15, 2026: 15,346,174 sharesMay 29, 2026: 18,277,241 sharesJun 15, 2026: 17,919,619 sharesJun 30, 2026: 17,686,436 sharesJul 15, 2026: 17,224,493 sharesJul 31, 2026: 13,347,497 sharesAug 14, 2026: 13,893,636 sharesAug 31, 2026: 14,854,574 sharesSep 15, 2026: 14,693,087 sharesSep 30, 2026: 14,606,885 sharesOct 15, 2026: 14,260,391 sharesOct 30, 2026: 15,328,895 shares
Short interest in MS by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 30, 202615.3M+1.07M+7.5%6.40M2.40
Oct 15, 202614.3M−346.5K−2.4%6.56M2.17
Sep 30, 202614.6M−86.2K−0.6%5.56M2.63
Sep 15, 202614.7M−161.5K−1.1%4.55M3.23
Aug 31, 202614.9M+960.9K+6.9%3.93M3.78
Aug 14, 202613.9M+546.1K+4.1%4.55M3.06
Jul 31, 202613.3M−3.88M−22.5%6.00M2.22
Jul 15, 202617.2M−461.9K−2.6%5.49M3.14
Jun 30, 202617.7M−233.2K−1.3%7.18M2.46
Jun 15, 202617.9M−357.6K−2.0%5.90M3.04
May 29, 202618.3M+2.93M+19.1%5.96M3.07
May 15, 202615.3M+737.3K+5.1%5.19M2.95
Apr 30, 202614.6M−885.8K−5.7%5.27M2.77
Apr 15, 202615.5M−788.1K−4.8%6.41M2.42
Mar 31, 202616.3M−1.55M−8.7%7.64M2.13
Mar 13, 202617.8M+1.91M+12.0%7.18M2.48
Feb 27, 202615.9M−602.1K−3.6%7.32M2.18
Feb 13, 202616.5M+2.42M+17.2%9.17M1.80
Jan 30, 202614.1M−1.83M−11.5%8.09M1.74
Jan 15, 202615.9M+179.2K+1.1%6.06M2.63
Dec 31, 202515.7M+79.0K+0.5%4.77M3.30
Dec 15, 202515.7M+2.14M+15.8%5.48M2.86
Nov 28, 202513.5M−420.2K−3.0%5.99M2.26
Nov 14, 202513.9M−238.0K−1.7%5.31M2.63
Oct 31, 202514.2M−910.7K−6.0%5.50M2.58
Oct 15, 202515.1M+524.5K+3.6%6.10M2.47
Sep 30, 202514.6M−1.65M−10.2%6.07M2.40
Sep 15, 202516.2M+1.54M+10.5%5.13M3.16
Aug 29, 202514.7M−588.5K−3.9%4.04M3.64
Aug 15, 202515.3M+673.6K+4.6%4.83M3.16
Jul 31, 202514.6M−334.5K−2.2%5.71M2.56
Jul 15, 202514.9M+167.7K+1.1%5.51M2.71
Jun 30, 202514.8M−164.0K−1.1%6.39M2.31
Jun 13, 202514.9M+635.6K+4.5%4.52M3.31
May 30, 202514.3M−2.77M−16.2%5.49M2.60
May 15, 202517.1M+2.25M+15.2%6.46M2.64
Apr 30, 202514.8M+166.3K+1.1%6.24M2.37
Apr 15, 202514.6M−226.0K−1.5%12.1M1.21
Mar 31, 202514.9M+425.1K+2.9%7.35M2.02
Mar 14, 202514.4M+152.3K+1.1%9.59M1.51
Feb 28, 202514.3M+1.16M+8.8%6.30M2.27
Feb 14, 202513.1M−620.2K−4.5%5.03M2.61
Jan 31, 202513.8M+1.16M+9.2%8.06M1.71
Jan 15, 202512.6M−1.18M−8.6%6.82M1.85
Dec 31, 202413.8M−269.0K−1.9%5.81M2.37
Dec 13, 202414.0M−1.28M−8.4%5.94M2.37
Nov 29, 202415.3M−1.34M−8.1%6.34M2.42
Nov 15, 202416.7M+1.91M+13.0%7.67M2.17
Oct 31, 202414.8M−2.08M−12.3%7.48M1.97

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 MS by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Sep 28, 202628$196.31$5.50K
Sep 17, 202629$202.42$5.87K
Sep 16, 202681$206.28$16.7K
Sep 11, 202618,398$212.66$3.91M
Sep 8, 202634$217.72$7.40K
Aug 31, 202610,355$214.77$2.22M
Aug 25, 202638,736$214.08$8.29M
Aug 24, 2026148,946$214.20$31.9M
Aug 11, 202624$215.33$5.17K
Aug 10, 2026200$216.33$43.3K
Aug 5, 202687$217.04$18.9K
Aug 3, 202648$210.42$10.1K
Jul 31, 2026200$210.06$42.0K
Jul 24, 2026100$215.18$21.5K
Jul 23, 2026100$218.50$21.9K
Jul 22, 20264,419$216.40$956.3K
Jul 21, 202611,943$210.94$2.52M
Jul 20, 202611,943$215.50$2.57M
Jul 17, 202656$218.37$12.2K
Jul 13, 2026319$222.28$70.9K
Jul 10, 2026132$222.13$29.3K
Jul 9, 202614,823$218.07$3.23M
Jul 2, 2026421$211.86$89.2K
Jun 30, 2026138$211.72$29.2K
Jun 29, 202677,967,776$212.03$16.5B
Jun 26, 20264,206$221.04$929.7K
Jun 24, 202640,776$226.03$9.22M
Jun 22, 2026273,209$223.17$61.0M
Jun 15, 20264,168$214.04$892.1K
Jun 2, 202655$211.01$11.6K

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 MS by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Nov 10, 2026757,3024881,700,05344.5%
Nov 9, 20261,152,5631,5972,547,95945.2%
Nov 6, 2026684,3971,5982,057,62533.3%
Nov 5, 20261,391,6341,5704,004,36434.8%
Nov 4, 20261,310,3541,9392,528,94551.8%
Nov 3, 2026543,6285431,363,57539.9%
Nov 2, 2026606,5354011,463,20841.5%
Oct 30, 20261,178,2732,2842,990,40439.4%
Oct 29, 2026664,5953242,118,59831.4%
Oct 28, 2026952,7675872,046,37546.6%
Oct 27, 2026813,8493252,020,71340.3%
Oct 26, 2026787,2024,0882,122,76537.1%
Oct 23, 2026452,1462602,048,29922.1%
Oct 22, 2026908,2495112,280,71939.8%
Oct 21, 2026970,7594,2012,324,24341.8%
Oct 20, 2026883,3336,0471,789,34249.4%
Oct 19, 2026598,0015,5941,428,79341.9%
Oct 16, 2026705,1541,3272,025,73734.8%
Oct 15, 2026690,2961,0503,388,23920.4%
Oct 14, 20261,234,9565,1413,697,60833.4%
Oct 13, 20261,409,9501003,102,92145.4%
Oct 12, 2026475,1911701,470,66232.3%
Oct 9, 2026405,8951,8631,697,37123.9%
Oct 8, 2026556,7831512,228,00825.0%
Oct 7, 2026598,9037732,240,47526.7%
Oct 6, 2026789,6973,4151,840,35542.9%
Oct 5, 2026576,8471,6131,591,01636.3%
Oct 2, 2026918,4212,6942,180,37242.1%
Oct 1, 2026864,3702,4443,980,45921.7%
Sep 30, 2026645,0434301,900,16333.9%

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 MS
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 19, 2026T16,533,965118,6356,588,95170,99849.8%
Oct 12, 2026T19,306,785157,4076,775,72785,41857.9%
Oct 5, 2026T16,305,589112,2044,618,60969,51557.7%
Sep 28, 2026T17,792,737134,1494,510,67078,45263.3%
Sep 21, 2026T15,914,093108,1995,351,04074,09852.5%
Sep 14, 2026T17,489,212135,9286,038,78173,27555.4%
Sep 7, 2026T13,102,28774,4372,056,33342,04760.1%
Aug 31, 2026T13,719,10288,1583,279,52553,80853.1%
Aug 24, 2026T13,332,10381,6063,481,48149,80148.9%
Aug 17, 2026T14,800,923107,7613,043,13958,77861.2%
Aug 10, 2026T14,140,05087,0452,891,37552,02658.9%
Aug 3, 2026T15,274,94693,8846,754,06860,97343.9%