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Novartis AG

NVSEF
Exchange
OTC
Industry
Pharmaceutical Preparations
SEC CIK
0001114448

No open-market purchases or sales by Novartis AG insiders were filed in the last 90 days; 2 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $6.28M in total; no superinvestor holds it.

Other share classesNVS

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
1.02M
Shares, settlement Oct 30, 2026
Change
−657.6K
−39.3% vs. Oct 15, 2026
Days to cover
8.65
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
117.5K
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 31, 2024: 2,763,775 sharesNov 15, 2024: 1,830,240 sharesNov 29, 2024: 2,151,735 sharesDec 13, 2024: 2,518,118 sharesDec 31, 2024: 2,330,294 sharesJan 15, 2025: 2,174,587 sharesJan 31, 2025: 2,960,951 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 3,673,857 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 3,830,556 sharesMar 14, 2025: 2,941,511 sharesMar 31, 2025: 2,226,511 sharesApr 15, 2025: 1,777,043 sharesApr 30, 2025: 1,632,735 sharesMay 15, 2025: 1,676,405 sharesMay 30, 2025: 1,276,004 sharesJun 13, 2025: 1,245,313 sharesJun 30, 2025: 1,052,577 sharesJul 15, 2025: 951,719 sharesJul 31, 2025: 1,161,269 sharesAug 15, 2025: 1,449,193 sharesAug 29, 2025: 1,881,245 sharesSep 15, 2025: 2,027,656 sharesSep 30, 2025: 1,094,911 sharesOct 15, 2025: 1,339,718 sharesOct 31, 2025: 1,718,048 sharesNov 14, 2025: 892,058 sharesNov 28, 2025: 1,071,706 sharesDec 15, 2025: 1,571,322 sharesDec 31, 2025: 1,757,298 sharesJan 15, 2026: 1,749,371 sharesJan 30, 2026: 2,869,211 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 3,733,441 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 4,010,364 sharesMar 13, 2026: 4,746,339 sharesMar 31, 2026: 4,541,422 sharesApr 15, 2026: 4,122,173 sharesApr 30, 2026: 603,081 sharesMay 15, 2026: 993,169 sharesMay 29, 2026: 1,146,092 sharesJun 15, 2026: 1,471,712 sharesJun 30, 2026: 1,366,455 sharesJul 15, 2026: 1,145,278 sharesJul 31, 2026: 1,202,677 sharesAug 14, 2026: 1,190,984 sharesAug 31, 2026: 1,073,700 sharesSep 15, 2026: 1,146,050 sharesSep 30, 2026: 1,617,976 sharesOct 15, 2026: 1,673,811 sharesOct 30, 2026: 1,016,174 shares
Short interest in NVSEF by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 30, 20261.02M−657.6K−39.3%117.5K8.65
Oct 15, 20261.67M+55.8K+3.5%36.8K45.52
Sep 30, 20261.62M+471.9K+41.2%75.5K21.43
Sep 15, 20261.15M+72.3K+6.7%70.0K16.38
Aug 31, 20261.07M−117.3K−9.9%6.01K178.71
Aug 14, 20261.19M−11.7K−1.0%1.75K680.95
Jul 31, 20261.20M+57.4K+5.0%1.82K661.90
Jul 15, 20261.15M−221.2K−16.2%69.6K16.47
Jun 30, 20261.37M−105.3K−7.2%22.3K61.33
Jun 15, 20261.47M+325.6K+28.4%301.4K4.88
May 29, 20261.15M+152.9K+15.4%16.4K69.98
May 15, 2026993.2K+390.1K+64.7%907> 999
Apr 30, 2026603.1K−3.52M−85.4%1.31K459.67
Apr 15, 20264.12M−419.2K−9.2%14.8K279.03
Mar 31, 20264.54M−204.9K−4.3%406.8K11.16
Mar 13, 20264.75M+736.0K+18.4%559.2K8.49
Feb 27, 20264.01M+276.9K+7.4%767.0K5.23
Feb 13, 20263.73M+864.2K+30.1%848.7K4.40
Jan 30, 20262.87M+1.12M+64.0%485.4K5.91
Jan 15, 20261.75M−7.93K−0.5%67.0K26.10
Dec 31, 20251.76M+186.0K+11.8%2.07K850.58
Dec 15, 20251.57M+499.6K+46.6%55.3K28.42
Nov 28, 20251.07M+179.6K+20.1%162.7K6.59
Nov 14, 2025892.1K−826.0K−48.1%41.0K21.78
Oct 31, 20251.72M+378.3K+28.2%97.3K17.65
Oct 15, 20251.34M+244.8K+22.4%155.7K8.60
Sep 30, 20251.09M−932.7K−46.0%29.7K36.90
Sep 15, 20252.03M+146.4K+7.8%15.9K127.72
Aug 29, 20251.88M+432.1K+29.8%1.19K> 999
Aug 15, 20251.45M+287.9K+24.8%19.3K74.95
Jul 31, 20251.16M+209.6K+22.0%145.0K8.01
Jul 15, 2025951.7K−100.9K−9.6%15.6K60.83
Jun 30, 20251.05M−192.7K−15.5%15.5K67.97
Jun 13, 20251.25M−30.7K−2.4%1.54K807.07
May 30, 20251.28M−400.4K−23.9%17.5K73.05
May 15, 20251.68M+43.7K+2.7%2.05K816.17
Apr 30, 20251.63M−144.3K−8.1%62.4K26.18
Apr 15, 20251.78M−449.5K−20.2%310.3K5.73
Mar 31, 20252.23M−715.0K−24.3%239.8K9.28
Mar 14, 20252.94M−889.0K−23.2%60.1K48.98
Feb 28, 20253.83M+156.7K+4.3%156.3K24.50
Feb 14, 20253.67M+712.9K+24.1%754.2K4.87
Jan 31, 20252.96M+786.4K+36.2%11.9K247.84
Jan 15, 20252.17M−155.7K−6.7%78.3K27.76
Dec 31, 20242.33M−187.8K−7.5%1.62K> 999
Dec 13, 20242.52M+366.4K+17.0%11.5K219.75
Nov 29, 20242.15M+321.5K+17.6%93.5K23.02
Nov 15, 20241.83M−933.5K−33.8%416.0K4.40
Oct 31, 20242.76M−466.1K−14.4%52.4K52.78

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.

The SEC has reported no fails-to-deliver for NVSEF.

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.

FINRA has reported no daily short volume for NVSEF in the last two years.

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 NVSEF
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 5, 2026OTCE––167,08667–
Sep 28, 2026OTCE––476,48160–
Sep 21, 2026OTCE––38,16358–
Sep 14, 2026OTCE––6,33559–
Sep 7, 2026OTCE––340,84853–
Aug 31, 2026OTCE––5,52042–
Aug 24, 2026OTCE––38,28342–
Aug 17, 2026OTCE––3,76249–
Aug 10, 2026OTCE––5,36936–
Aug 3, 2026OTCE––4,07339–
Jul 27, 2026OTCE––1,76445–
Jul 20, 2026OTCE118,815350.0%