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ORLY in the last 90 days

O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. - Common Stock (ORLY) (ORLY) had 2 congress transactions by 1 member and no insider purchases in filings from the last 90 days.

FINRA’s latest report (settlement 15 SEPT 2026) shows 25,741,427 shares held short, 4.7 days to cover, down 2.9% from the report before.

  • Congress: 0 purchases and 2 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: 25 SEPT 2026 · FINRA settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed

What the price is doing

$85$92 → $85 · -8% over six months

ORLY is down 8%. Short sellers still aren't backing off.

Bets against it — they pay off if the price falls — are up 53% over the same stretch.

$92 STARTAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPT24 APR 2026 — Hon. Jonathan Jackson — $1,001 – $15,00031 AUG 2026 — Hon. Kevin Hern — $15,001 – $50,000 · partial02 SEPT 2026 — Hon. Kevin Hern — $15,001 – $50,000 · partialNOW $85

Politician activityBoughtSold

Short sellers

11 reports · twice a month

APR 0%peak +57%15 SEPT +53%APRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPT

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

Politicians

0 buys · 3 sales

Traded over six months

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Short sellers

Bets up 53%

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 ORLY holds up when sellers show up.

How it holds up · last 60 trading days

Through 17 SEPT 2026

Mixed

When ORLY gets hit lately, it goes both ways.

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

That's been true for the last 2 trading days.

The last 6 months

ResilientMixedVulnerable
MAYJUNJULAUGSEPT
27 MAR 2026Now · 17 SEPT 2026

What the filings show

What the filings show · last 90 days

2 of 4 sources

-53Leaning out

Leaning outBalancedLeaning in

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

Short interest
Short interest rose 11.9% — 23,003,971 to 25,741,427 shares between 15 JUL 2026 and 15 SEPT 2026. See the filings →
-30
Congress
1 member of Congress disclosed 0 purchases and 2 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

25,741,427shares held short

Days to cover

4.67

Avg daily volume

5,514,650

Since last report

-2.93%

As of 15 September 2026, 25,741,427 O'Reilly Automotive, Inc. - Common Stock (ORLY) shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 777,545 shares fewer than the previous report, a 2.93% decrease. At the average daily volume of 5,514,650 shares, that position represents 4.67 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 ORLY — 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 16,732,139 shares on 31 March 2026 to 25,741,427 today, a change of 53.8%. The highest reading in that window was 26,518,972 shares on 31 August 2026.

SettlementShares shortDays to cover
15 SEPT 202625,741,4274.67
31 AUG 202626,518,9725.56
14 AUG 202624,347,6955.55
31 JUL 202625,064,4722.90
15 JUL 202623,003,9712.53
30 JUN 202623,671,3502.47
15 JUN 202624,294,6403.33
29 MAY 202620,754,1593.20
15 MAY 202619,947,9123.33
30 APR 202620,895,5423.94
15 APR 202616,840,3703.96
31 MAR 202616,732,1392.65
What is ORLY's short interest?
25,741,427 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, 4.67. 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 transactions16

Latest change25 SEPT 2026

SHORT POSITIONS · 0INSIDER BUYS · 0CONGRESS · 16

Congress transactions on file

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

WhoAmount as filedTradedFiledLag
Hon. Kevin HernSOLD$15,001 – $50,000 · partial31 AUG 202625 SEPT 202625 days
Hon. Kevin HernSOLD$15,001 – $50,000 · partial02 SEPT 202625 SEPT 202623 days
Hon. Jonathan JacksonSOLD$1,001 – $15,00024 APR 202627 MAY 202633 days
Hon. Jonathan JacksonSOLD$15,001 – $50,00019 MAR 202608 APR 202620 days
Hon. Lisa McClainSOLD$1,001 – $15,00031 OCT 202521 NOV 202521 days
Hon. Lisa McClainBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00030 OCT 202521 NOV 202522 days
Hon. Lisa McClainSOLD$1,001 – $15,00030 OCT 202521 NOV 202522 days
Hon. Kevin HernSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial28 OCT 202516 NOV 202519 days
Hon. Valerie HoyleSOLD$1,001 – $15,00023 SEPT 202510 OCT 202517 days
Hon. Lisa McClainSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial04 AUG 202512 SEPT 202539 days
Hon. Valerie HoyleBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00029 OCT 202412 SEPT 2025318 days — the law says 45
Hon. Lisa McClainBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00011 DEC 202413 AUG 2025245 days — the law says 45
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial30 MAY 202506 JUN 20257 days
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00029 APR 202506 MAY 20257 days
Hon. Greg LandsmanSOLD$15,001 – $50,00027 MAR 202508 APR 202512 days
Hon. Jonathan JacksonBOUGHT$15,001 – $50,00016 DEC 202416 JAN 202531 days
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