XLF short interest

Name: XLF short interest
Creator: FinzData

State Street Financial Select · Unclassified (ETFs, funds, other) · settlement date 2026-09-30

Shares short	143,189,087
Change vs prior report	6,976,069 (+5.1%)
Change over six months	+36.6%
Days to cover	3.36 (sector: 0.98)
Average daily volume	42,554,903
Rank in Unclassified (ETFs, funds, other)	not ranked (OTC, fund or thinly traded)

XLF short interest, last 12 months

Settlement	Shares short	Change	Days to cover	Avg daily volume
2026-09-30	143,189,087	+5.1%	3.36	42,554,903
2026-09-15	136,213,018	-3.6%	4.30	31,691,353
2026-08-31	141,325,403	+45.1%	4.91	28,755,032
2026-08-14	97,419,628	-12.5%	3.73	26,100,521
2026-07-31	111,372,699	-25.2%	3.38	32,981,313
2026-07-15	148,996,035	+2.9%	4.01	37,151,686
2026-06-30	144,813,204	-4.2%	4.33	33,472,093
2026-06-15	151,114,690	+5.0%	3.68	41,055,505
2026-05-29	143,854,544	+7.8%	4.15	34,702,815
2026-05-15	133,472,598	+28.6%	3.74	35,675,634
2026-04-30	103,829,849	-3.0%	3.38	30,754,458
2026-04-15	107,046,195	+2.2%	2.83	37,804,641
2026-03-31	104,785,776	-30.5%	1.79	58,445,980
2026-03-13	150,865,446	+26.6%	2.25	67,116,440
2026-02-27	119,121,653	+33.6%	1.95	60,979,729
2026-02-13	89,171,222	+49.3%	1.50	59,302,870
2026-01-30	59,730,956	-2.3%	1.31	45,463,069
2026-01-15	61,136,464	+3.0%	1.30	47,001,820
2025-12-31	59,326,742	+6.3%	1.96	30,206,274
2025-12-15	55,802,835	-15.2%	1.43	38,891,466
2025-11-28	65,784,069	+23.5%	1.27	51,924,316
2025-11-14	53,261,764	-7.1%	1.25	42,491,826
2025-10-31	57,330,126	-3.8%	1.29	44,600,326
2025-10-15	59,585,637	-14.2%	1.50	39,741,025
2025-09-30	87,911,105	+22.8%	2.74	32,125,816

import finzdata as yf
yf.Ticker("XLF").short_interest          # every report since 2017
yf.Client().short_interest(["XLF"], start="2018-01-01")