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Capital One Financial
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COF in the last 90 days
Capital One Financial (COF) had no congress transactions and no insider purchases in filings from the last 90 days.
FINRA’s latest report (settlement 15 SEPT 2026) shows 9,857,399 shares held short, 3.1 days to cover, down 10.3% 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: 09 MAR 2026 · FINRA settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed
What the price is doing
COF is up 6%. Short sellers still aren't backing off.
Bets against it — they pay off if the price falls — are up 34% over the same stretch.
Short sellers
11 reports · twice a month
Money betting COF falls. Reported twice a month, and it shows up seven working days late.
Insiders
Nothing reported
Traded over six months
Quiet Money
Our take on how well COF holds up when sellers show up.
How it holds up · last 60 trading days
Through 21 SEPT 2026
Mixed
When COF gets hit lately, it goes both ways.
Lately, COF holds firm some days and gives way on others.
That's been true for the last 22 trading days.
The last 6 months
What the filings show
What the filings show · last 90 days
1 of 4 sources
+59Leaning in
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 23.5% — 12,880,294 to 9,857,399 shares between 15 JUL 2026 and 15 SEPT 2026. See the filings →
- +59
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 15 SEPT 2026 · shares held short
9,857,399shares held short
Days to cover
3.14
Avg daily volume
3,143,853
Since last report
-10.33%
As of 15 September 2026, 9,857,399 Capital One Financial shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 1,135,921 shares fewer than the previous report, a 10.33% decrease. At the average daily volume of 3,143,853 shares, that position represents 3.14 days of trading — what the filing calls days to cover.
This is the most recent figure that exists, and it is 17 days old. FINRA collects short interest twice a month, on a settlement date, and publishes it about eight business days later. So nobody has a live short-interest number for COF — not us, and not anyone quoting one. We print the settlement date on the figure so you always know which day you are looking at.
Across the 12 reports we hold, the position has risen from 7,890,644 shares on 31 March 2026 to 9,857,399 today, a change of 24.9%. The highest reading in that window was 12,880,294 shares on 15 July 2026.
| Settlement | Shares short | Days to cover |
|---|---|---|
| 15 SEPT 2026 | 9,857,399 | 3.14 |
| 31 AUG 2026 | 10,993,320 | 3.46 |
| 14 AUG 2026 | 10,747,577 | 3.71 |
| 31 JUL 2026 | 10,742,421 | 2.25 |
| 15 JUL 2026 | 12,880,294 | 3.18 |
| 30 JUN 2026 | 11,748,005 | 2.29 |
| 15 JUN 2026 | 10,957,715 | 2.15 |
| 29 MAY 2026 | 10,678,479 | 2.14 |
| 15 MAY 2026 | 8,854,301 | 1.95 |
| 30 APR 2026 | 8,223,331 | 1.92 |
| 15 APR 2026 | 7,373,447 | 1.77 |
| 31 MAR 2026 | 7,890,644 | 1.58 |
- What is COF's short interest?
- 9,857,399 shares, as of the 15 September 2026 settlement date. That is the figure FINRA published, unadjusted.
- What percentage of the float is short?
- We do not publish that, because FINRA does not publish float. The regulator reports the number of shares held short; turning it into a percentage needs a share count from somewhere else, and different sources disagree about what counts as float. We would rather give you the number that was actually filed than a percentage built on an assumption.
- How current is this?
- It is 17 days old, and that is as fresh as short interest gets. FINRA measures it twice a month and publishes it seven business days after the settlement date. Any site showing you a "live" short interest figure is showing you something else.
- What does days to cover mean?
- It is the short position divided by average daily trading volume — here, 3.14. It describes how many days of ordinary trading the position is equivalent to. It is arithmetic from the filing, not a prediction about what will happen.
- Where does this come from?
- FINRA's consolidated short interest file, which is public. We read it directly and store it unchanged, except that we blank the days-to-cover placeholder FINRA writes when a stock has almost no volume.
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
Congress transactions11
Latest change09 MAR 2026
Congress transactions on file
11 disclosed · newest first · every row links to its filing
| Who | Amount as filed | Traded | Filed | Lag | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hon. Gilbert Cisneros | SOLD | $1,001 – $15,000 | 10 FEB 2026 | 09 MAR 2026 | 27 days |
| Hon. Gilbert Cisneros | BOUGHT | $1,001 – $15,000 | 09 JAN 2026 | 13 FEB 2026 | 35 days |
| Hon. Julie Johnson | SOLD | $1,001 – $15,000 | 18 DEC 2025 | 15 JAN 2026 | 28 days |
| Hon. Julie Johnson | SOLD | $1,001 – $15,000 · partial | 13 NOV 2025 | 11 DEC 2025 | 28 days |
| Hon. Valerie Hoyle | SOLD | $1,001 – $15,000 | 23 SEPT 2025 | 10 OCT 2025 | 17 days |
| Hon. Valerie Hoyle | BOUGHT | $1,001 – $15,000 | 06 JUN 2025 | 12 SEPT 2025 | 98 days — the law says 45 |
| Hon. Julie Johnson | SOLD | $1,001 – $15,000 · partial | 14 AUG 2025 | 11 SEPT 2025 | 28 days |
| Hon. Julie Johnson | BOUGHT | $1,001 – $15,000 | 01 APR 2025 | 14 MAY 2025 | 43 days |
| Hon. Julie Johnson | BOUGHT | $1,001 – $15,000 | 21 MAR 2025 | 14 APR 2025 | 24 days |
| Hon. Julie Johnson | BOUGHT | $1,001 – $15,000 | 24 FEB 2025 | 12 MAR 2025 | 16 days |
| Hon. Julie Johnson | BOUGHT | $1,001 – $15,000 | 14 FEB 2025 | 12 MAR 2025 | 26 days |