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Wells Fargo & Company

WFC
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National Commercial Banks
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No open-market purchases or sales by Wells Fargo & Company insiders were filed in the last 90 days; 2,896 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $193.2B in total; 5 superinvestors hold it, including Harris Associates (Oakmark) and Daily Journal.

Other share classesWFCNPWFC.PAWFC.PCWFC.PDWFC.PLWFC.PYWFC.PZ

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
32.0M
Shares, settlement Oct 30, 2026
Change
+5.32M
+19.9% vs. Oct 15, 2026
Days to cover
2.34
Short interest ÷ average daily volume
Average daily volume
13.7M
Shares, as reported by FINRA
Short interest by settlement date
Oct 31, 2024: 34,963,714 sharesNov 15, 2024: 36,596,779 sharesNov 29, 2024: 39,695,990 sharesDec 13, 2024: 37,660,024 sharesDec 31, 2024: 30,063,300 sharesJan 15, 2025: 33,210,697 sharesJan 31, 2025: 27,257,902 sharesFeb 14, 2025: 28,643,554 sharesFeb 28, 2025: 30,497,271 sharesMar 14, 2025: 35,408,898 sharesMar 31, 2025: 29,706,379 sharesApr 15, 2025: 34,043,072 sharesApr 30, 2025: 39,818,374 sharesMay 15, 2025: 42,644,300 sharesMay 30, 2025: 38,814,966 sharesJun 13, 2025: 37,956,667 sharesJun 30, 2025: 36,769,589 sharesJul 15, 2025: 34,390,484 sharesJul 31, 2025: 39,675,473 sharesAug 15, 2025: 39,877,824 sharesAug 29, 2025: 46,193,654 sharesSep 15, 2025: 44,007,011 sharesSep 30, 2025: 34,569,708 sharesOct 15, 2025: 31,951,328 sharesOct 31, 2025: 30,037,679 sharesNov 14, 2025: 40,371,214 sharesNov 28, 2025: 42,720,493 sharesDec 15, 2025: 41,423,518 sharesDec 31, 2025: 38,360,053 sharesJan 15, 2026: 33,658,519 sharesJan 30, 2026: 31,999,574 sharesFeb 13, 2026: 26,656,825 sharesFeb 27, 2026: 27,315,596 sharesMar 13, 2026: 30,285,003 sharesMar 31, 2026: 28,809,340 sharesApr 15, 2026: 27,670,452 sharesApr 30, 2026: 29,647,824 sharesMay 15, 2026: 34,939,383 sharesMay 29, 2026: 32,456,915 sharesJun 15, 2026: 34,848,759 sharesJun 30, 2026: 28,597,263 sharesJul 15, 2026: 28,993,166 sharesJul 31, 2026: 28,452,806 sharesAug 14, 2026: 28,081,879 sharesAug 31, 2026: 33,929,528 sharesSep 15, 2026: 31,549,023 sharesSep 30, 2026: 24,503,152 sharesOct 15, 2026: 26,707,359 sharesOct 30, 2026: 32,024,479 shares
Short interest in WFC by settlement date
Settlement dateShort interestChangeChange %Avg. daily volumeDays to cover
Oct 30, 202632.0M+5.32M+19.9%13.7M2.34
Oct 15, 202626.7M+2.20M+9.0%17.3M1.54
Sep 30, 202624.5M−7.05M−22.3%14.3M1.72
Sep 15, 202631.5M−2.38M−7.0%14.3M2.20
Aug 31, 202633.9M+5.85M+20.8%11.8M2.88
Aug 14, 202628.1M−370.9K−1.3%11.5M2.43
Jul 31, 202628.5M−540.4K−1.9%16.0M1.78
Jul 15, 202629.0M+395.9K+1.4%16.5M1.75
Jun 30, 202628.6M−6.25M−17.9%17.6M1.62
Jun 15, 202634.8M+2.39M+7.4%14.6M2.39
May 29, 202632.5M−2.48M−7.1%15.8M2.05
May 15, 202634.9M+5.29M+17.9%18.4M1.90
Apr 30, 202629.6M+1.98M+7.2%17.1M1.74
Apr 15, 202627.7M−1.14M−4.0%15.3M1.81
Mar 31, 2026Revised28.8M−1.47M−4.9%18.5M1.55
Mar 13, 202630.3M+2.97M+10.9%19.8M1.53
Feb 27, 202627.3M+658.8K+2.5%16.6M1.65
Feb 13, 202626.7M−5.34M−16.7%15.6M1.71
Jan 30, 202632.0M−1.66M−4.9%18.3M1.75
Jan 15, 202633.7M−4.70M−12.3%16.7M2.02
Dec 31, 202538.4M−3.06M−7.4%11.7M3.27
Dec 15, 202541.4M−1.30M−3.0%13.9M2.97
Nov 28, 202542.7M+2.35M+5.8%13.8M3.09
Nov 14, 202540.4M+10.3M+34.4%15.2M2.65
Oct 31, 202530.0M−1.91M−6.0%16.3M1.84
Oct 15, 202532.0M−2.62M−7.6%15.5M2.06
Sep 30, 202534.6M−9.44M−21.4%13.8M2.50
Sep 15, 202544.0M−2.19M−4.7%14.5M3.04
Aug 29, 202546.2M+6.32M+15.8%12.3M3.76
Aug 15, 202539.9M+202.4K+0.5%14.7M2.71
Jul 31, 202539.7M+5.28M+15.4%18.0M2.20
Jul 15, 202534.4M−2.38M−6.5%20.1M1.71
Jun 30, 202536.8M−1.19M−3.1%19.0M1.93
Jun 13, 202538.0M−858.3K−2.2%16.6M2.29
May 30, 202538.8M−3.83M−9.0%12.5M3.11
May 15, 202542.6M+2.83M+7.1%16.5M2.59
Apr 30, 202539.8M+5.78M+17.0%19.4M2.05
Apr 15, 202534.0M+4.34M+14.6%27.2M1.25
Mar 31, 202529.7M−5.70M−16.1%13.8M2.15
Mar 14, 202535.4M+4.91M+16.1%21.2M1.67
Feb 28, 202530.5M+1.85M+6.5%15.9M1.92
Feb 14, 202528.6M+1.39M+5.1%15.6M1.84
Jan 31, 202527.3M−5.95M−17.9%14.3M1.91
Jan 15, 202533.2M+3.15M+10.5%15.9M2.08
Dec 31, 202430.1M−7.60M−20.2%15.8M1.90
Dec 13, 202437.7M−2.04M−5.1%14.9M2.53
Nov 29, 202439.7M+3.10M+8.5%17.9M2.22
Nov 15, 202436.6M+1.63M+4.7%20.2M1.81
Oct 31, 202435.0M−758.9K−2.1%17.0M2.06

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 WFC by settlement date
Settlement dateSharesPriceValue
Oct 9, 2026142$82.03$11.6K
Oct 7, 2026105$81.51$8.56K
Oct 5, 2026647$80.45$52.1K
Oct 1, 20269,106$80.05$728.9K
Sep 30, 202625,101$80.48$2.02M
Sep 29, 202697$80.81$7.84K
Sep 28, 2026144$82.97$11.9K
Sep 25, 20262,756$82.18$226.5K
Sep 24, 202696$81.90$7.86K
Sep 22, 202619$86.54$1.64K
Sep 18, 20267,595$86.89$659.9K
Sep 15, 202615$88.71$1.33K
Sep 14, 20261,453$90.29$131.2K
Sep 8, 20263,301$89.97$297.0K
Aug 31, 20261,019$86.69$88.3K
Aug 21, 20264,884$83.70$408.8K
Aug 17, 2026500$88.82$44.4K
Aug 12, 20265$87.45$437.25
Aug 11, 202612$87.52$1.05K
Aug 10, 20261,000$87.25$87.3K
Aug 7, 2026221$87.59$19.4K
Aug 6, 20264,897$89.17$436.7K
Aug 5, 202621,825$88.39$1.93M
Aug 3, 202643,128$86.45$3.73M
Jul 31, 202634,011$85.43$2.91M
Jul 29, 202621,871$86.87$1.90M
Jul 20, 20261,363$87.51$119.3K
Jul 17, 20262,400$88.07$211.4K
Jul 10, 202612,100$86.91$1.05M
Jul 9, 20261,642$85.56$140.5K

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 WFC by trade date
Trade dateShort volumeShort exemptOff-exchange volumeShort volume ratio
Nov 13, 20261,318,97210,0952,594,02050.8%
Nov 12, 20261,054,246332,085,86050.5%
Nov 11, 2026721,7283,5321,978,11636.5%
Nov 10, 20261,170,7577,4622,365,05049.5%
Nov 9, 20261,521,79911,5372,829,38653.8%
Nov 6, 20261,400,0014,6192,697,62651.9%
Nov 5, 20262,572,3433,2194,605,23955.9%
Nov 4, 20264,214,7543,6368,448,64549.9%
Nov 3, 20263,505,4644,1625,045,93169.5%
Nov 2, 20263,206,91728,1505,198,49961.7%
Oct 30, 20261,498,5208,0243,577,44241.9%
Oct 29, 20261,831,91012,1763,653,18750.1%
Oct 28, 20262,871,6786,9625,444,16752.7%
Oct 27, 20261,233,1484,8702,472,99749.9%
Oct 26, 2026985,58227,3532,719,09336.2%
Oct 23, 20261,166,9084,7342,453,68347.6%
Oct 22, 20261,584,3515,6743,327,55647.6%
Oct 21, 20261,360,09516,1172,672,69150.9%
Oct 20, 20262,304,73813,2894,846,43547.6%
Oct 19, 20262,951,6732,2486,178,50747.8%
Oct 16, 20264,592,4917,6698,377,23854.8%
Oct 15, 20263,619,3639,5417,611,53447.6%
Oct 14, 20262,949,84310,3229,280,66831.8%
Oct 13, 20263,817,02410,9438,822,08843.3%
Oct 12, 20261,526,45310,0265,255,71229.0%
Oct 9, 20262,177,7079,6499,068,72424.0%
Oct 8, 20261,403,2228,0336,870,67120.4%
Oct 7, 20261,146,38718,0004,939,52923.2%
Oct 6, 20261,061,9791,8944,590,36723.1%
Oct 5, 20261,302,6044,3454,943,32126.4%

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 WFC
Week ofTierATS sharesATS tradesOther OTC sharesOther OTC tradesATS share
Oct 19, 2026T112,745,350159,06713,177,41867,33249.2%
Oct 12, 2026T128,195,410277,60021,558,86894,63856.7%
Oct 5, 2026T121,133,622199,66813,757,45185,32560.6%
Sep 28, 2026T114,413,799159,32614,887,66980,50649.2%
Sep 21, 2026T113,209,777175,86011,615,90781,08853.2%
Sep 14, 2026T114,767,883201,64917,772,12975,46145.4%
Sep 7, 2026T111,343,746152,8977,934,58059,41658.8%
Aug 31, 2026T115,288,435200,60421,865,71476,17041.1%
Aug 24, 2026T18,800,669152,4268,556,87463,59450.7%
Aug 17, 2026T18,517,801149,10918,966,32264,91331.0%
Aug 10, 2026T18,873,318142,57821,165,77560,41729.5%
Aug 3, 2026T111,871,156162,61112,996,11470,46947.7%