XLP short interest

Name: XLP short interest
Creator: FinzData

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

Shares short	20,037,745
Change vs prior report	-2,948,533 (-12.8%)
Change over six months	-44.3%
Days to cover	1.89 (sector: 0.98)
Average daily volume	10,629,259
Rank in Unclassified (ETFs, funds, other)	not ranked (OTC, fund or thinly traded)

XLP short interest, last 12 months

Settlement	Shares short	Change	Days to cover	Avg daily volume
2026-09-30	20,037,745	-12.8%	1.89	10,629,259
2026-09-15	22,986,278	+10.8%	2.09	10,985,134
2026-08-31	20,736,195	-5.5%	2.26	9,170,607
2026-08-14	21,939,031	-0.3%	2.56	8,560,766
2026-07-31	21,996,380	+12.7%	1.79	12,307,311
2026-07-15	19,521,674	-39.6%	1.79	10,933,273
2026-06-30	32,326,987	+5.8%	2.66	12,169,480
2026-06-15	30,563,486	+0.3%	2.19	13,945,698
2026-05-29	30,466,953	+6.1%	2.74	11,122,987
2026-05-15	28,720,153	-8.0%	2.52	11,388,191
2026-04-30	31,220,995	-6.5%	2.75	11,342,865
2026-04-15	33,391,811	-7.2%	2.35	14,239,277
2026-03-31	35,982,376	-2.5%	2.03	17,747,750
2026-03-13	36,920,969	-15.0%	1.57	23,578,830
2026-02-27	43,433,486	-7.4%	2.20	19,720,999
2026-02-13	46,904,804	+37.0%	1.61	29,046,705
2026-01-30	34,231,266	-2.2%	1.87	18,263,433
2026-01-15	35,012,990	-39.1%	1.49	23,429,132
2025-12-31	57,540,685	+29.2%	6.01	9,580,859
2025-12-15	44,543,949	+27.8%	2.93	15,207,775
2025-11-28	34,849,852	+6.3%	2.11	16,477,925
2025-11-14	32,779,463	-1.2%	2.07	15,862,152
2025-10-31	33,190,399	-16.3%	2.35	14,144,004
2025-10-15	39,661,840	+1.2%	3.52	11,278,957
2025-09-30	39,205,980	-16.5%	2.98	13,154,375

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