Is APLD heavily shorted?

By share count, yes: its position was in the top 3% of actively traded US stocks on 30 September 2026. By days to cover, 3.40, it sat just under the 3.79-day median.

Is 32% short interest high?

That kind of percentage divides shares held short by the float, which FINRA does not report. For Applied Digital this page keeps to FINRA’s own figures: 56,633,429 shares and 3.40 days to cover on 30 September 2026, down from 86,580,036 shares at the January peak.

Why did APLD short interest drop in August 2026?

The filings show the size of the drop, 23.35% in the 14 August 2026 report, but not the reason. FINRA reports only the total held short across all brokers. It did not mark the report with a split flag, so the share count was not restated.

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Applied Digital Corp.

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APLD in the last 90 days

Applied Digital Corp. (APLD) had no US House transactions and no insider purchases in filings from the last 90 days.

FINRA’s latest report (settlement 30 SEPT 2026) shows 56,633,429 shares held short, 3.4 days to cover, down 2.1% from the report before.

Delay: each filing below shows how many days passed between the trade and its publication. None of this is real-time.

Latest filing on file: — · FINRA settlement 30 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed · updated 13 Oct, 06:05 UTC

Applied Digital (APLD) short interest in 2025 and 2026

Applied Digital’s short position keeps shrinking. On 30 September 2026 FINRA counted 56,633,429 shares held short, 2.13% fewer than two weeks earlier and 3.40 days of trading at 16,644,343 shares a day.

It peaked at 86,580,036 shares on 30 January 2026 and has fallen in 12 of the 16 reports since. The count is now 10.28% below the 63,123,533 shares held short in August 2025.

The largest single move came in the 14 August 2026 report: a 23.35% drop, from 72,715,542 to 55,733,587 shares, the lowest figure in our records. FINRA did not mark it with a split flag. Days to cover has stayed between 1.76 and 4.77 in every report since August 2025.

By shares held short it still ranked 110th of 4,468 stocks on this site’s high short interest list for 30 September. By days to cover it was 2,495th, just past the middle. The filings on this site show no insider purchase of APLD and no House trade in it.

Is APLD heavily shorted?: By share count, yes: its position was in the top 3% of actively traded US stocks on 30 September 2026. By days to cover, 3.40, it sat just under the 3.79-day median.
Is 32% short interest high?: That kind of percentage divides shares held short by the float, which FINRA does not report. For Applied Digital this page keeps to FINRA’s own figures: 56,633,429 shares and 3.40 days to cover on 30 September 2026, down from 86,580,036 shares at the January peak.
Why did APLD short interest drop in August 2026?: The filings show the size of the drop, 23.35% in the 14 August 2026 report, but not the reason. FINRA reports only the total held short across all brokers. It did not mark the report with a split flag, so the share count was not restated.

What the filings show

What the filings show · last 90 days · Quiet Money indicator

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+47Tilted in

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The disclosed money is leaning into this name, on what has actually been filed. This reads on one source only, so treat it lightly.

Short interest: Short interest fell 18.9% — 69,869,887 to 56,633,429 shares between 15 JUL 2026 and 30 SEPT 2026. See the filings →; +47

This summarises filings that have already been published — it is not a forecast, a rating of the company, or advice. Every figure above is listed in full further down this page, with the document it came from.

FINRA short interest

Settlement 30 SEPT 2026 · shares held short

56,633,429shares held short

Days to cover

3.40

Avg daily volume

16,644,343

Since last report

-2.13%

As of 30 September 2026, 56,633,429 Applied Digital Corp. shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 1,230,502 shares fewer than the previous report, a 2.13% decrease. At the average daily volume of 16,644,343 shares, that position represents 3.40 days of trading — what the filing calls days to cover.

Across the 12 reports we hold, the position has fallen from 80,062,277 shares on 15 April 2026 to 56,633,429 today, a change of 29.3%. The highest reading in that window was 80,062,277 shares on 15 April 2026.

Settlement	Shares short	Days to cover
30 SEPT 2026	56,633,429	3.40
15 SEPT 2026	57,863,931	4.07
31 AUG 2026	58,427,815	3.89
14 AUG 2026	55,733,587	3.46
31 JUL 2026	72,715,542	3.15
15 JUL 2026	69,869,887	4.11
30 JUN 2026	70,993,690	3.41
15 JUN 2026	74,362,955	3.65
29 MAY 2026	77,160,796	3.22
15 MAY 2026	78,716,290	3.53
30 APR 2026	80,053,909	3.26
15 APR 2026	80,062,277	3.01

Why there is no float percentage, what days to cover means and when FINRA publishes: how short interest is counted here.

Disclosed insider buying on file

—no purchase on file passed the price check

Open-market purchases only — the amount is a fact, not a verdict.

On file here

Short positions0

Insider purchases0

US House transactions0

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