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MS in the last 90 days

Morgan Stanley (MS) had 1 congress transaction by 1 member and no insider purchases in filings from the last 90 days.

FINRA’s latest report (settlement 15 SEPT 2026) shows 14,693,087 shares held short, 3.2 days to cover, down 1.1% from the report before.

  • Congress: 1 purchase and 0 sales reported, amounts in the bands the law requires.
  • 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: 17 JUL 2026 · FINRA settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed

What the price is doing

$188$167 → $188 · +13% over six months

MS is up 13%, and short sellers have been backing off.

Bets against it — they pay off if the price falls — are down 5% over the same stretch.

$167 STARTAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPTOCT10 JUL 2026 — Hon. Dan Newhouse — $1,001 – $15,000NOW $188

Politician activityBoughtSold

Short sellers

11 reports · twice a month

APR 0%peak +18%15 SEPT -5%APRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPTOCT

Money betting MS falls. Reported twice a month, and it shows up seven working days late.

Politicians

1 buys · 0 sales

Traded over six months

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Short sellers

Bets down 5%

Over six months · newest 15 SEPT 2026

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Insiders

Nothing reported

Traded over six months

Quiet Money

Our take on how well MS holds up when sellers show up.

How it holds up · last 60 trading days

Through 21 SEPT 2026

Mixed

When MS gets hit lately, it goes both ways.

Lately, MS holds firm some days and gives way on others.

That's been true for the last 4 trading days.

The last 6 months

ResilientMixedVulnerable
MAYJUNJULAUGSEPT
31 MAR 2026Now · 21 SEPT 2026

What the filings show

What the filings show · last 90 days

2 of 4 sources

+58Leaning in

Leaning outBalancedLeaning in

The disclosed money is leaning into this name, on what has actually been filed. This reads on two of the four sources we track.

Short interest
Short interest fell 14.7% — 17,224,493 to 14,693,087 shares between 15 JUL 2026 and 15 SEPT 2026. See the filings →
+37
Congress
1 member of Congress disclosed 1 purchase and 0 sales. See the filings →
+100

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

14,693,087shares held short

Days to cover

3.23

Avg daily volume

4,551,617

Since last report

-1.09%

As of 15 September 2026, 14,693,087 Morgan Stanley shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 161,487 shares fewer than the previous report, a 1.09% decrease. At the average daily volume of 4,551,617 shares, that position represents 3.23 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 MS — 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 fallen from 16,282,811 shares on 31 March 2026 to 14,693,087 today, a change of 9.8%. The highest reading in that window was 18,277,241 shares on 29 May 2026.

SettlementShares shortDays to cover
15 SEPT 202614,693,0873.23
31 AUG 202614,854,5743.78
14 AUG 202613,893,6363.06
31 JUL 202613,347,4972.22
15 JUL 202617,224,4933.14
30 JUN 202617,686,4362.46
15 JUN 202617,919,6193.04
29 MAY 202618,277,2413.07
15 MAY 202615,346,1742.95
30 APR 202614,608,8652.77
15 APR 202615,494,6612.42
31 MAR 202616,282,8112.13
What is MS's short interest?
14,693,087 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, 3.23. 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 transactions20

Latest change17 JUL 2026

SHORT POSITIONS · 0INSIDER BUYS · 0CONGRESS · 20

Congress transactions on file

20 disclosed · newest first · every row links to its filing

WhoAmount as filedTradedFiledLag
Hon. Dan NewhouseBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00010 JUL 202617 JUL 20267 days
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,00018 DEC 202515 JAN 202628 days
Hon. Steve CohenSOLD$50,001 – $100,000 · partial17 DEC 202514 JAN 202628 days
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00018 NOV 202515 DEC 202527 days
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial13 NOV 202511 DEC 202528 days
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00017 OCT 202518 NOV 202532 days
Hon. Valerie HoyleSOLD$1,001 – $15,00023 SEPT 202510 OCT 202517 days
Hon. Marjorie Taylor GreeneBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00011 SEPT 202527 SEPT 202516 days
Hon. Valerie HoyleBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00024 JAN 202512 SEPT 2025231 days — the law says 45
Hon. Valerie HoyleSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial02 APR 202512 SEPT 2025163 days — the law says 45
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial14 AUG 202511 SEPT 202528 days
Hon. Marjorie Taylor GreeneBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00028 AUG 202529 AUG 20251 day
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial15 MAY 202513 JUN 202529 days
Hon. Marjorie Taylor GreeneBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00014 MAY 202519 MAY 20255 days
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,00007 APR 202514 MAY 202537 days
Hon. Bruce WestermanSOLD$1,001 – $15,00021 APR 202512 MAY 202521 days
Hon. Jefferson ShreveSOLD$15,001 – $50,00007 APR 202508 MAY 202531 days
Hon. Marjorie Taylor GreeneBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00005 MAY 202506 MAY 20251 day
Hon. Bruce WestermanBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00003 MAR 202516 APR 202544 days
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial24 JAN 202512 FEB 202519 days
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