Is DVLT heavily shorted?

By share count, yes: 103,187,131 shares on 30 September 2026, the 39th largest position among actively traded US stocks. By days to cover, no: at 1.67 days it sat well below the 3.79-day median, because so many shares change hands each day.

Is 20% short interest high?

A 20% figure is built on a float count, and FINRA’s file has none, so it cannot be checked here. What can be checked is days to cover. For Datavault AI it was under 2 days in 18 of the 27 reports since August 2025, and above 5 only twice.

Why does DVLT short interest change so much between reports?

The filings show the size of each move, not its cause. FINRA reports the total held short across all brokers on each settlement date. For DVLT that total went from 7,866,677 to 44,830,208 to 9,716,166 shares in three reports in September and October 2025, with no split flag on any of them.

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DVLT in the last 90 days

Datavault AI Inc. (DVLT) 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 103,187,131 shares held short, 1.7 days to cover, down 14.3% 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: — · FINRA settlement 30 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed · updated 13 Oct, 06:05 UTC

Datavault AI (DVLT) short interest, report by report

Datavault AI trades so heavily that a very large short position takes under two days to cover. On 30 September 2026, FINRA counted 103,187,131 shares held short, 14.34% fewer than two weeks before, against average volume of 61,740,180 shares a day: 1.67 days to cover.

Few stocks have moved like this between reports. The count jumped 469.87% in the 30 September 2025 report, to 44,830,208 shares, then fell 78.33% two weeks later. It more than doubled again in the 31 October and 15 December 2025 reports. FINRA marked none of these with a split flag.

Since January 2026 the climb has been steadier. The count rose from 65,417,690 on 15 January to a high of 120,465,264 on 15 September 2026. The latest figure is about 15 times the 6,811,768 shares held short in August 2025. Days to cover peaked at 8.71 on 31 July 2026, when volume dropped to 11,396,063 shares a day.

Datavault AI trades on the Nasdaq Capital Market. On this site’s high short interest list it had the 39th largest short position on 30 September, but ranked only 3,540th of 4,468 by days to cover. No insider purchase or House trade in DVLT appears in our filings.

Is DVLT heavily shorted?: By share count, yes: 103,187,131 shares on 30 September 2026, the 39th largest position among actively traded US stocks. By days to cover, no: at 1.67 days it sat well below the 3.79-day median, because so many shares change hands each day.
Is 20% short interest high?: A 20% figure is built on a float count, and FINRA’s file has none, so it cannot be checked here. What can be checked is days to cover. For Datavault AI it was under 2 days in 18 of the 27 reports since August 2025, and above 5 only twice.
Why does DVLT short interest change so much between reports?: The filings show the size of each move, not its cause. FINRA reports the total held short across all brokers on each settlement date. For DVLT that total went from 7,866,677 to 44,830,208 to 9,716,166 shares in three reports in September and October 2025, with no split flag on any of them.

What the filings show

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

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

Short interest: Short interest rose 7.0% — 96,439,857 to 103,187,131 shares between 15 JUL 2026 and 30 SEPT 2026. See the filings →; -17

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

103,187,131shares held short

Days to cover

1.67

Avg daily volume

61,740,180

Since last report

-14.34%

As of 30 September 2026, 103,187,131 Datavault AI Inc. shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 17,278,133 shares fewer than the previous report, a 14.34% decrease. At the average daily volume of 61,740,180 shares, that position represents 1.67 days of trading — what the filing calls days to cover.

Across the 12 reports we hold, the position has risen from 81,177,525 shares on 15 April 2026 to 103,187,131 today, a change of 27.1%. The highest reading in that window was 120,465,264 shares on 15 September 2026.

Settlement	Shares short	Days to cover
30 SEPT 2026	103,187,131	1.67
15 SEPT 2026	120,465,264	1.90
31 AUG 2026	108,663,457	1.89
14 AUG 2026	88,403,066	2.85
31 JUL 2026	99,311,700	8.71
15 JUL 2026	96,439,857	3.93
30 JUN 2026	96,677,676	5.46
15 JUN 2026	104,307,410	2.88
29 MAY 2026	93,724,603	1.90
15 MAY 2026	88,894,893	1.08
30 APR 2026	81,340,286	2.57
15 APR 2026	81,177,525	2.70

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.

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