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VST in the last 90 days

Vistra Corp. (VST) had no congress transactions and 3 insider purchases worth $1,173,069 by 1 insider in filings from the last 90 days.

FINRA’s latest report (settlement 15 SEPT 2026) shows 9,701,865 shares held short, 2.0 days to cover, down 10.0% from the report before.

  • Insiders: open-market purchases only (Form 4 code P); a purchase filed by related owners counts once.
  • 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: 02 SEPT 2026 · FINRA settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed

What the price is doing

$140$152 → $140 · -8% over six months

VST is down 8%, and short sellers have been backing off.

Bets against it — they pay off if the price falls — are down 14% over the same stretch.

$152 STARTAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPTOCT24 AUG 2026 — BURKE JAMES A — $270,00031 AUG 2026 — BURKE JAMES A — $299,17801 SEPT 2026 — BURKE JAMES A — $603,891NOW $140

Insider activityBoughtSold

Short sellers

11 reports · twice a month

APR 0%peak +42%15 SEPT -14%APRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPTOCT

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

Politicians

None filed

Traded over six months

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Short sellers

Bets down 14%

Over six months · newest 15 SEPT 2026

See the numbers →

Insiders

3 reported

Traded over six months

See the filings →

Quiet Money

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

How it holds up · last 60 trading days

Through 21 SEPT 2026

Mixed

When VST gets hit lately, it goes both ways.

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

That's been true for the last 10 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

+53Leaning 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 23.0% — 12,604,861 to 9,701,865 shares between 15 JUL 2026 and 15 SEPT 2026. See the filings →
+58
Insider purchases
1 insider disclosed buying $1,173,069 across 2 filings.
+46

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

9,701,865shares held short

Days to cover

2.04

Avg daily volume

4,746,115

Since last report

-9.98%

As of 15 September 2026, 9,701,865 Vistra Corp. shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 1,076,138 shares fewer than the previous report, a 9.98% decrease. At the average daily volume of 4,746,115 shares, that position represents 2.04 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 VST — 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 9,333,104 shares on 31 March 2026 to 9,701,865 today, a change of 4.0%. The highest reading in that window was 15,917,274 shares on 30 June 2026.

SettlementShares shortDays to cover
15 SEPT 20269,701,8652.04
31 AUG 202610,778,0032.67
14 AUG 20269,636,5771.87
31 JUL 20268,680,2532.05
15 JUL 202612,604,8613.17
30 JUN 202615,917,2743.45
15 JUN 202615,362,6323.66
29 MAY 202615,703,7022.64
15 MAY 202613,438,3082.31
30 APR 202612,471,4713.26
15 APR 202611,237,5603.31
31 MAR 20269,333,1042.05
What is VST's short interest?
9,701,865 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, 2.04. 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

$1,173,069across 3 purchases

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

On file here

Short positions0

Insider purchases3

Congress transactions11

Latest change02 SEPT 2026

SHORT POSITIONS · 0INSIDER BUYS · 3CONGRESS · 11

Insider purchases on file

  • SEC — Form 4 insider purchase

    BURKE JAMES ADirector / President and CEO

    BOUGHTCommon Stock

    $299,178

    2,200 sh @ $135.99

    31 AUG 2026 → filed 02 SEPT 2026

    Filed 2 days after the tradeSEC EDGAR · 0001268406-26-000009 →

  • SEC — Form 4 insider purchase

    BURKE JAMES ADirector / President and CEO

    BOUGHTCommon Stock

    $603,891

    4,465 sh @ $135.25

    01 SEPT 2026 → filed 02 SEPT 2026

    Filed 1 day after the tradeSEC EDGAR · 0001268406-26-000009 →

  • SEC — Form 4 insider purchase

    BURKE JAMES ADirector / President and CEO

    BOUGHTCommon Stock

    $270,000

    2,000 sh @ $135

    24 AUG 2026 → filed 24 AUG 2026

    Filed the same day as the tradeSEC EDGAR · 0001268406-26-000007 →

Congress transactions on file

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

WhoAmount as filedTradedFiledLag
Hon. Julia LetlowBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00017 FEB 202612 MAR 202623 days
Hon. Nancy PelosiBOUGHT$100,001 – $250,00016 JAN 202623 JAN 20267 days
Hon. Lisa McClainSOLD$1,001 – $15,00031 OCT 202521 NOV 202521 days
Hon. Lisa McClainSOLD$1,001 – $15,00030 OCT 202521 NOV 202522 days
Hon. Lisa McClainBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00030 OCT 202521 NOV 202522 days
Hon. Lisa McClainBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00017 JUN 202513 AUG 202557 days — the law says 45
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,00001 APR 202514 MAY 202543 days
Hon. Jefferson ShreveSOLD$15,001 – $50,00007 APR 202508 MAY 202531 days
Hon. Jefferson ShreveBOUGHT$15,001 – $50,00005 MAR 202511 APR 202537 days
Hon. Julie JohnsonBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00012 FEB 202512 MAR 202528 days
Hon. Nancy PelosiBOUGHT$500,001 – $1,000,00014 JAN 202517 JAN 20253 days
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