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Vistra Corp.

VST
Exchange
NYSE
Industry
Electric Services
SEC CIK
0001692819

In the last 90 days, Vistra Corp. insiders filed 2 open-market purchases and 4 sales; 1,419 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $45.1B in total; superinvestors Appaloosa and Soros Fund Management hold 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
10.3M
Shares, settlement Oct 30, 2026
Change
+402.8K
+4.1% vs. Oct 15, 2026
Days to cover
1.85
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
5.59M
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 31, 2024: 9,638,585 sharesNov 15, 2024: 8,732,769 sharesNov 29, 2024: 8,303,517 sharesDec 13, 2024: 7,247,252 sharesDec 31, 2024: 9,496,478 sharesJan 15, 2025: 9,786,610 sharesJan 31, 2025: 8,167,827 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 6,841,810 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 6,897,219 sharesMar 14, 2025: 6,973,345 sharesMar 31, 2025: 7,857,671 sharesApr 15, 2025: 6,284,529 sharesApr 30, 2025: 6,650,511 sharesMay 15, 2025: 8,981,743 sharesMay 30, 2025: 7,202,878 sharesJun 13, 2025: 6,599,981 sharesJun 30, 2025: 8,994,024 sharesJul 15, 2025: 8,214,545 sharesJul 31, 2025: 7,579,482 sharesAug 15, 2025: 7,806,774 sharesAug 29, 2025: 7,396,196 sharesSep 15, 2025: 7,249,187 sharesSep 30, 2025: 8,116,860 sharesOct 15, 2025: 6,833,443 sharesOct 31, 2025: 7,917,745 sharesNov 14, 2025: 7,107,929 sharesNov 28, 2025: 7,769,224 sharesDec 15, 2025: 7,080,329 sharesDec 31, 2025: 7,826,489 sharesJan 15, 2026: 9,012,962 sharesJan 30, 2026: 9,647,855 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 10,122,195 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 9,901,441 sharesMar 13, 2026: 8,823,320 sharesMar 31, 2026: 9,333,104 sharesApr 15, 2026: 11,237,560 sharesApr 30, 2026: 12,471,471 sharesMay 15, 2026: 13,438,308 sharesMay 29, 2026: 15,703,702 sharesJun 15, 2026: 15,362,632 sharesJun 30, 2026: 15,917,274 sharesJul 15, 2026: 12,604,861 sharesJul 31, 2026: 8,680,253 sharesAug 14, 2026: 9,636,577 sharesAug 31, 2026: 10,778,003 sharesSep 15, 2026: 9,701,865 sharesSep 30, 2026: 10,482,914 sharesOct 15, 2026: 9,946,752 sharesOct 30, 2026: 10,349,565 shares
Short interest in VST by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 30, 202610.3M+402.8K+4.1%5.59M1.85
Oct 15, 20269.95M−536.2K−5.1%9.39M1.06
Sep 30, 202610.5M+781.0K+8.1%4.79M2.19
Sep 15, 20269.70M−1.08M−10.0%4.75M2.04
Aug 31, 202610.8M+1.14M+11.8%4.03M2.67
Aug 14, 20269.64M+956.3K+11.0%5.14M1.87
Jul 31, 20268.68M−3.92M−31.1%4.24M2.05
Jul 15, 202612.6M−3.31M−20.8%3.98M3.17
Jun 30, 202615.9M+554.6K+3.6%4.61M3.45
Jun 15, 202615.4M−341.1K−2.2%4.19M3.66
May 29, 202615.7M+2.27M+16.9%5.95M2.64
May 15, 202613.4M+966.8K+7.8%5.82M2.31
Apr 30, 202612.5M+1.23M+11.0%3.82M3.26
Apr 15, 202611.2M+1.90M+20.4%3.39M3.31
Mar 31, 20269.33M+509.8K+5.8%4.56M2.05
Mar 13, 20268.82M−1.08M−10.9%4.91M1.80
Feb 27, 20269.90M−220.8K−2.2%4.65M2.13
Feb 13, 202610.1M+474.3K+4.9%6.96M1.45
Jan 30, 20269.65M+634.9K+7.0%5.67M1.70
Jan 15, 20269.01M+1.19M+15.2%6.90M1.31
Dec 31, 20257.83M+746.2K+10.5%4.06M1.93
Dec 15, 20257.08M−688.9K−8.9%4.27M1.66
Nov 28, 20257.77M+661.3K+9.3%3.87M2.01
Nov 14, 20257.11M−809.8K−10.2%4.73M1.50
Oct 31, 20257.92M+1.08M+15.9%4.89M1.62
Oct 15, 20256.83M−1.28M−15.8%4.37M1.56
Sep 30, 20258.12M+867.7K+12.0%5.17M1.57
Sep 15, 20257.25M−147.0K−2.0%4.63M1.56
Aug 29, 20257.40M−410.6K−5.3%3.41M2.17
Aug 15, 20257.81M+227.3K+3.0%4.93M1.58
Jul 31, 20257.58M−635.1K−7.7%5.28M1.44
Jul 15, 20258.21M−779.5K−8.7%4.52M1.82
Jun 30, 20258.99M+2.39M+36.3%5.27M1.71
Jun 13, 20256.60M−602.9K−8.4%5.40M1.22
May 30, 20257.20M−1.78M−19.8%5.19M1.39
May 15, 20258.98M+2.33M+35.1%7.70M1.17
Apr 30, 20256.65M+366.0K+5.8%5.23M1.27
Apr 15, 20256.28M−1.57M−20.0%9.63M1.00
Mar 31, 20257.86M+884.3K+12.7%6.79M1.16
Mar 14, 20256.97M+76.1K+1.1%10.9M1.00
Feb 28, 20256.90M+55.4K+0.8%10.2M1.00
Feb 14, 20256.84M−1.33M−16.2%6.34M1.08
Jan 31, 20258.17M−1.62M−16.5%13.4M1.00
Jan 15, 20259.79M+290.1K+3.1%7.35M1.33
Dec 31, 20249.50M+2.25M+31.0%4.51M2.11
Dec 13, 20247.25M−1.06M−12.7%4.87M1.49
Nov 29, 20248.30M−429.3K−4.9%5.75M1.44
Nov 15, 20248.73M−905.8K−9.4%7.19M1.21
Oct 31, 20249.64M−953.2K−9.0%5.46M1.77

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 VST by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Oct 13, 20264,800$158.13$759.0K
Oct 7, 202637$160.50$5.94K
Oct 5, 202625,778$140.02$3.61M
Sep 8, 202682$149.30$12.2K
Sep 3, 2026916$143.46$131.4K
Sep 2, 202618,629$138.08$2.57M
Aug 13, 20269$146.68$1.32K
Aug 4, 2026460$155.94$71.7K
Jul 31, 2026100$148.62$14.9K
Jul 30, 2026200$142.81$28.6K
Jul 27, 2026600$163.38$98.0K
Jul 8, 2026408$155.73$63.5K
Jul 7, 202621,392$157.22$3.36M
Jul 2, 202610$153.16$1.53K
Jul 1, 202610$158.63$1.59K
Jun 30, 202649$162.38$7.96K
Jun 29, 2026312$163.49$51.0K
Jun 26, 20268,412$167.77$1.41M
Jun 22, 2026600$163.75$98.3K
Jun 18, 20261,200$158.83$190.6K
Jun 16, 20265,495$153.52$843.6K
Jun 15, 20261,484$148.02$219.7K
Jun 1, 2026254$160.23$40.7K
May 29, 202678$160.28$12.5K
May 28, 2026125$160.15$20.0K
May 27, 2026251$164.56$41.3K
May 26, 20261,800$156.27$281.3K
May 20, 202610,091$134.71$1.36M
May 13, 20261,539$146.87$226.0K
May 1, 20261,643$157.84$259.3K

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 VST by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Nov 10, 2026627,8671,1881,644,23138.2%
Nov 9, 20261,214,2353,7313,324,45036.5%
Nov 6, 20262,040,3514,0105,556,47736.7%
Nov 5, 20261,303,54255,1267,255,01218.0%
Nov 4, 20262,941,094101,6859,143,26932.2%
Nov 3, 20261,285,2636832,668,92548.2%
Nov 2, 2026646,2045551,953,73733.1%
Oct 30, 2026866,6822502,294,39637.8%
Oct 29, 2026543,7821751,978,00627.5%
Oct 28, 2026686,6582932,083,28433.0%
Oct 27, 2026871,7243311,734,25350.3%
Oct 26, 2026995,5991,3851,951,90151.0%
Oct 23, 20261,387,173102,1473,258,48642.6%
Oct 22, 20262,178,564108,3935,628,26538.7%
Oct 21, 20261,136,8454192,055,10855.3%
Oct 20, 2026749,815741,545,63748.5%
Oct 19, 2026725,4971,1251,691,36242.9%
Oct 16, 20261,268,5018,4212,465,49851.5%
Oct 15, 20261,672,5735,2113,176,78952.6%
Oct 14, 20261,265,7035,5773,221,25139.3%
Oct 13, 20261,099,3593,1022,318,65547.4%
Oct 12, 2026944,9185,8352,954,97632.0%
Oct 9, 20261,185,9852,3123,132,55837.9%
Oct 8, 20262,303,95922,6195,688,40540.5%
Oct 7, 20262,803,12010,5515,890,22547.6%
Oct 6, 20263,818,13317,5098,535,13144.7%
Oct 5, 20262,481,7651,2244,889,45650.8%
Oct 2, 20261,987,2661,5184,461,49444.5%
Oct 1, 20261,037,0194,3232,153,54048.2%
Sep 30, 20261,436,3651,7693,175,82945.2%

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 VST
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 19, 2026T18,400,634134,4556,989,457154,77454.6%
Oct 12, 2026T17,749,963134,0497,511,040171,55950.8%
Oct 5, 2026T113,050,937207,87016,998,938348,93143.4%
Sep 28, 2026T16,917,623128,4428,171,485210,56045.8%
Sep 21, 2026T14,352,36299,6736,662,922168,29239.5%
Sep 14, 2026T14,068,84598,0417,447,085136,15135.3%
Sep 7, 2026T14,235,20794,5314,758,248128,44647.1%
Aug 31, 2026T14,527,634105,7605,799,435146,22143.8%
Aug 24, 2026T13,693,56295,0835,634,833129,69739.6%
Aug 17, 2026T14,881,648111,3055,321,325120,50647.8%
Aug 10, 2026T14,303,326102,7883,688,967100,92053.8%
Aug 3, 2026T19,094,134159,5407,344,906155,61855.3%