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In the last 90 days, Southern First Bancshares Inc insiders filed 1 open-market purchase and 5 sales; 167 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $522.1M in total; Soros Fund Management is 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
379.6K
Shares, settlement Oct 30, 2026
Change
−52.1K
−12.1% vs. Oct 15, 2026
Days to cover
4.63
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
81.9K
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 31, 2024: 64,058 sharesNov 15, 2024: 62,042 sharesNov 29, 2024: 69,683 sharesDec 13, 2024: 74,514 sharesDec 31, 2024: 66,768 sharesJan 15, 2025: 57,477 sharesJan 31, 2025: 53,009 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 58,270 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 72,619 sharesMar 14, 2025: 65,964 sharesMar 31, 2025: 68,061 sharesApr 15, 2025: 69,050 sharesApr 30, 2025: 63,083 sharesMay 15, 2025: 52,918 sharesMay 30, 2025: 51,724 sharesJun 13, 2025: 57,178 sharesJun 30, 2025: 54,378 sharesJul 15, 2025: 52,332 sharesJul 31, 2025: 49,649 sharesAug 15, 2025: 55,005 sharesAug 29, 2025: 48,028 sharesSep 15, 2025: 52,258 sharesSep 30, 2025: 55,248 sharesOct 15, 2025: 57,762 sharesOct 31, 2025: 54,517 sharesNov 14, 2025: 63,219 sharesNov 28, 2025: 61,835 sharesDec 15, 2025: 61,651 sharesDec 31, 2025: 57,402 sharesJan 15, 2026: 64,574 sharesJan 30, 2026: 54,500 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 61,136 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 81,851 sharesMar 13, 2026: 120,699 sharesMar 31, 2026: 114,505 sharesApr 15, 2026: 116,045 sharesApr 30, 2026: 117,775 sharesMay 15, 2026: 126,569 sharesMay 29, 2026: 131,227 sharesJun 15, 2026: 190,554 sharesJun 30, 2026: 436,399 sharesJul 15, 2026: 385,190 sharesJul 31, 2026: 351,373 sharesAug 14, 2026: 359,361 sharesAug 31, 2026: 369,118 sharesSep 15, 2026: 414,144 sharesSep 30, 2026: 420,186 sharesOct 15, 2026: 431,762 sharesOct 30, 2026: 379,643 shares
Short interest in SFST by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 30, 2026379.6K−52.1K−12.1%81.9K4.63
Oct 15, 2026431.8K+11.6K+2.8%58.2K7.42
Sep 30, 2026420.2K+6.04K+1.5%99.8K4.21
Sep 15, 2026414.1K+45.0K+12.2%81.5K5.08
Aug 31, 2026369.1K+9.76K+2.7%107.0K3.45
Aug 14, 2026359.4K+7.99K+2.3%98.5K3.65
Jul 31, 2026351.4K−33.8K−8.8%122.4K2.87
Jul 15, 2026385.2K−51.2K−11.7%108.7K3.54
Jun 30, 2026436.4K+245.8K+129.0%204.6K2.13
Jun 15, 2026190.6K+59.3K+45.2%123.6K1.54
May 29, 2026131.2K+4.66K+3.7%142.6K1.00
May 15, 2026126.6K+8.79K+7.5%101.1K1.25
Apr 30, 2026117.8K+1.73K+1.5%207.2K1.00
Apr 15, 2026116.0K+1.54K+1.3%120.7K1.00
Mar 31, 2026114.5K−6.19K−5.1%104.9K1.09
Mar 13, 2026120.7K+38.8K+47.5%97.3K1.24
Feb 27, 202681.9K+20.7K+33.9%68.8K1.19
Feb 13, 202661.1K+6.64K+12.2%44.6K1.37
Jan 30, 202654.5K−10.1K−15.6%45.5K1.20
Jan 15, 202664.6K+7.17K+12.5%55.8K1.16
Dec 31, 202557.4K−4.25K−6.9%44.5K1.29
Dec 15, 202561.7K−184−0.3%78.1K1.00
Nov 28, 202561.8K−1.38K−2.2%24.8K2.49
Nov 14, 202563.2K+8.70K+16.0%28.8K2.20
Oct 31, 202554.5K−3.25K−5.6%19.7K2.77
Oct 15, 202557.8K+2.51K+4.6%14.5K3.97
Sep 30, 202555.2K+2.99K+5.7%22.7K2.43
Sep 15, 202552.3K+4.23K+8.8%14.5K3.61
Aug 29, 202548.0K−6.98K−12.7%23.7K2.03
Aug 15, 202555.0K+5.36K+10.8%24.8K2.21
Jul 31, 202549.6K−2.68K−5.1%33.8K1.47
Jul 15, 202552.3K−2.05K−3.8%19.4K2.70
Jun 30, 202554.4K−2.80K−4.9%18.8K2.89
Jun 13, 202557.2K+5.45K+10.5%16.4K3.49
May 30, 202551.7K−1.19K−2.3%15.2K3.40
May 15, 202552.9K−10.2K−16.1%12.1K4.38
Apr 30, 202563.1K−5.97K−8.6%18.2K3.47
Apr 15, 202569.0K+989+1.5%18.3K3.78
Mar 31, 202568.1K+2.10K+3.2%15.4K4.41
Mar 14, 202566.0K−6.66K−9.2%18.7K3.52
Feb 28, 202572.6K+14.3K+24.6%18.9K3.83
Feb 14, 202558.3K+5.26K+9.9%14.6K4.00
Jan 31, 202553.0K−4.47K−7.8%17.8K2.98
Jan 15, 202557.5K−9.29K−13.9%11.5K5.01
Dec 31, 202466.8K−7.75K−10.4%23.3K2.87
Dec 13, 202474.5K+4.83K+6.9%17.5K4.26
Nov 29, 202469.7K+7.64K+12.3%16.3K4.26
Nov 15, 202462.0K−2.02K−3.2%22.3K2.78
Oct 31, 202464.1K+7.54K+13.3%16.3K3.93

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 SFST by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Sep 17, 20262$61.28$122.56
Aug 28, 20265,326$62.19$331.2K
Aug 20, 2026192$62.51$12.0K
Aug 19, 2026762$64.22$48.9K
Aug 11, 2026131$62.75$8.22K
Jul 29, 20264$62.49$249.96
Jul 24, 2026667$60.55$40.4K
Jul 23, 2026741$60.34$44.7K
Jul 22, 2026667$61.72$41.2K
Jul 21, 2026667$61.39$40.9K
Jul 14, 2026845$61.71$52.1K
Jun 18, 2026409$57.95$23.7K
Jun 3, 20261,000$58.22$58.2K
Jun 2, 20261,000$57.26$57.3K
Jun 1, 20261,000$57.77$57.8K
Apr 20, 202610,004$57.78$578.0K
Apr 17, 202620,000$55.12$1.10M
Apr 14, 20262,608$58.53$152.6K
Apr 13, 20262,910$58.41$170.0K
Apr 7, 20265$55.92$279.6
Mar 23, 202693$51.94$4.83K
Mar 2, 20267$55.84$390.88
Feb 19, 20267$59.66$417.62
Feb 13, 202642$58.80$2.47K
Jan 21, 2026165$54.42$8.98K
Dec 23, 2025396$53.19$21.1K
Dec 19, 202510,000$54.67$546.7K
Dec 18, 202510,000$54.79$547.9K
Dec 17, 202510,000$55.26$552.6K
Dec 16, 202510,000$55.50$555.0K

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 SFST by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Nov 13, 20263,875010,97235.3%
Nov 12, 202610,489015,75466.6%
Nov 11, 20268,438014,74657.2%
Nov 10, 20269,467018,43551.4%
Nov 9, 20269,594027,74534.6%
Nov 6, 20269,755022,00944.3%
Nov 5, 202610,8474018,50058.6%
Nov 4, 202610,7051123,19046.2%
Nov 3, 20268,307015,38754.0%
Nov 2, 20264,838013,14836.8%
Oct 30, 202612,203031,79138.4%
Oct 29, 202610,9971637,05529.7%
Oct 28, 20264,836010,14147.7%
Oct 27, 20262,60508,30731.4%
Oct 26, 20265,587011,07250.5%
Oct 23, 20265,949013,05545.6%
Oct 22, 20267,847014,04655.9%
Oct 21, 202618,308031,18558.7%
Oct 20, 202617,401031,08956.0%
Oct 19, 20267,739014,92551.9%
Oct 16, 20264,8946010,82245.2%
Oct 15, 20265,519012,58143.9%
Oct 14, 202612,810019,00967.4%
Oct 13, 20267,785012,58361.9%
Oct 12, 20264,67308,66253.9%
Oct 9, 202611,703016,81269.6%
Oct 8, 20267,772014,16254.9%
Oct 7, 202610,4722015,64266.9%
Oct 6, 20269,66230016,41358.9%
Oct 5, 20265,23108,24563.4%

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 SFST
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 5, 2026T259,0134,36118,25178676.4%
Sep 28, 2026T265,6754,90740,23697462.0%
Sep 21, 2026T276,0594,77352,2151,23559.3%
Sep 14, 2026T2102,8316,12963,4851,00061.8%
Sep 7, 2026T254,8154,02433,97558661.7%
Aug 31, 2026T283,4844,13530,4441,12073.3%
Aug 24, 2026T2134,7385,52138,2621,57077.9%
Aug 17, 2026T2123,2397,27385,42893059.1%
Aug 10, 2026T292,0636,08846,38397166.5%
Aug 3, 2026T2198,7545,65879,0421,29571.5%
Jul 27, 2026T2110,6076,44658,4811,37865.4%
Jul 20, 2026T2175,5207,41058,1061,08975.1%