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VZ in the last 90 days

Verizon Communications (VZ) 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 84,077,299 shares held short, 4.7 days to cover, up 2.0% from the report before.

  • Congress: 0 purchases and 1 sale 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: 04 SEPT 2026 · FINRA settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed

What the price is doing

$46$49 → $46 · -6% over six months

VZ is down 6%, and short sellers have been backing off.

Bets against it — they pay off if the price falls — are down 6% over the same stretch.

$49 STARTAPRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPTOCT23 APR 2026 — Hon. Lloyd K. Smucker — $1,001 – $15,00007 APR 2026 — Hon. Jennifer McClellan — $100,001 – $250,000 · partial14 APR 2026 — Hon. Gilbert Cisneros — $1,001 – $15,00017 JUL 2026 — Hon. Gilbert Cisneros — $1,001 – $15,000 · partialNOW $46

Politician activityBoughtSold

Short sellers

11 reports · twice a month

APR 0%peak +6%15 SEPT -6%APRMAYJUNJULAUGSEPTOCT

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

Politicians

1 buys · 3 sales

Traded over six months

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Short sellers

Bets down 6%

Over six months · newest 15 SEPT 2026

See the numbers →

Insiders

Nothing reported

Traded over six months

Quiet Money

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

How it holds up · last 60 trading days

Through 21 SEPT 2026

Resilient

When VZ gets hit, it tends to hold up better than usual.

Lately, VZ has been harder to push down than usual.

That's been true for the last 5 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

-30Tilted 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 fell 1.9% — 85,680,317 to 84,077,299 shares between 15 JUL 2026 and 15 SEPT 2026. See the filings →
+5
Congress
1 member of Congress disclosed 0 purchases and 1 sale. 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

84,077,299shares held short

Days to cover

4.65

Avg daily volume

18,069,447

Since last report

+1.98%

As of 15 September 2026, 84,077,299 Verizon Communications shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 1,632,437 shares more than the previous report, a 1.98% increase. At the average daily volume of 18,069,447 shares, that position represents 4.65 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 VZ — 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 88,438,006 shares on 31 March 2026 to 84,077,299 today, a change of 4.9%. The highest reading in that window was 94,985,050 shares on 30 June 2026.

SettlementShares shortDays to cover
15 SEPT 202684,077,2994.65
31 AUG 202682,444,8624.79
14 AUG 202676,354,4023.72
31 JUL 202683,388,2662.93
15 JUL 202685,680,3172.44
30 JUN 202694,985,0502.64
15 JUN 202689,914,3183.87
29 MAY 202686,615,6943.97
15 MAY 202687,476,3374.59
30 APR 202688,027,8373.36
15 APR 202689,726,8143.33
31 MAR 202688,438,0063.04
What is VZ's short interest?
84,077,299 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, 4.65. 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 transactions25

Latest change04 SEPT 2026

SHORT POSITIONS · 0INSIDER BUYS · 0CONGRESS · 25

Congress transactions on file

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

WhoAmount as filedTradedFiledLag
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial17 JUL 202604 SEPT 202649 days — the law says 45
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00014 APR 202608 MAY 202624 days
Hon. Lloyd K. SmuckerSOLD$1,001 – $15,00023 APR 202630 APR 20267 days
Hon. Jennifer McClellanSOLD$100,001 – $250,000 · partial07 APR 202616 APR 20269 days
Hon. Pete SessionsSOLD$1,001 – $15,00009 MAR 202609 MAR 2026the same day as the trade
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,00018 DEC 202515 JAN 202628 days
Hon. Tim MooreBOUGHT$15,001 – $50,00010 DEC 202519 DEC 20259 days
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial13 NOV 202511 DEC 202528 days
Hon. Tim MooreSOLD$100,001 – $250,00019 NOV 202502 DEC 202513 days
Hon. Tim MooreBOUGHT$15,001 – $50,00005 NOV 202502 DEC 202527 days
Hon. Tim MooreBOUGHT$50,001 – $100,00007 OCT 202512 NOV 202536 days
Hon. Tim MooreBOUGHT$15,001 – $50,00010 OCT 202512 NOV 202533 days
Hon. Tim MooreBOUGHT$15,001 – $50,00031 OCT 202512 NOV 202512 days
Hon. Kelly Louise MorrisonSOLD$1,001 – $15,00019 AUG 202511 SEPT 202523 days
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial14 AUG 202511 SEPT 202528 days
Hon. Tim MooreSOLD$15,001 – $50,00001 AUG 202503 SEPT 202533 days
Hon. Lisa McClainBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00024 JUN 202513 AUG 202550 days — the law says 45
Hon. Lisa McClainSOLD$1,001 – $15,00010 JUL 202513 AUG 202534 days
Hon. Tim MooreBOUGHT$15,001 – $50,00029 JUL 202505 AUG 20257 days
Hon. Jefferson ShreveSOLD$15,001 – $50,00012 MAY 202522 JUN 202541 days
Hon. Dan NewhouseSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial11 APR 202516 MAY 202535 days
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,00001 APR 202514 MAY 202543 days
Hon. Rob BresnahanBOUGHT$15,001 – $50,00008 APR 202508 MAY 202530 days
Hon. Julie JohnsonSOLD$1,001 – $15,000 · partial15 JAN 202512 FEB 202528 days
Hon. Emily RandallSOLD$1,001 – $15,00006 JAN 202511 FEB 202536 days
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