iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF - SLQD Short Interest Ratio & Short Volume

Short interest is the volume of iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. As of September 15th, traders have sold 19,100 shares of SLQD short. Learn More on iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF's current short interest.

iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF saw a increase in short interest during the month of September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 19,100 shares, an increase of 19.4% from the previous total of 16,000 shares. Changes in short volume can be used to identify positive and negative investor sentiment. Investors that short sell a stock are betting that its price will decline in the future. An increase in short sale volume suggests bearish (negative) sentiment among investors. A decrease on short sale volume suggests bullish (positive) sentiment.

Here is how the short interest of companies in the industry of "electronic computer manufacturing" compare to iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF: iShares ESG MSCI USA Leaders ETF (0.02%), VanEck Fallen Angel High Yield Bond ETF (1.68%), iShares Exponential Technologies ETF (0.06%), First Trust Cloud Computing ETF (0.37%), iShares Global Infrastructure ETF (0.83%), First Trust Dorsey Wright Focus 5 ETF (0.06%), First Trust Senior Loan Fund (0.05%), First Trust TCW Opportunistic Fixed Income ETF (0.02%), iShares Fallen Angels USD Bond ETF (0.39%), and iShares GSCI Commodity Dynamic Roll Strategy ETF (0.71%).

As of the most recent reporting period, the following stocks had the largest short interest positions: Occidental Petroleum Co. ($4.11 billion), Canadian Natural Resources Limited ($3.64 billion), Charter Communications, Inc. ($3.15 billion), Lucid Group, Inc. ($2.09 billion), Chesapeake Energy Co. ($2.02 billion), Coinbase Global, Inc. ($2.01 billion), T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. ($1.92 billion), Plug Power Inc. ($1.77 billion), Rivian Automotive, Inc. ($1.71 billion), and Williams-Sonoma, Inc. ($1.59 billion). View all of the most shorted stocks.

Short selling SLQD is an investing strategy that aims to generate trading profit from iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF as its price is falling. SLQD shares are trading down $0.09 today. To short a stock, an investor borrows shares, sells them and buys the shares back on the public market later to return it to the lender. Short sellers are betting that a stock will decline in price. If the stock does drop after selling, the short seller buys it back at a lower price and returns it to the lender. The difference between the sell price and the buy price is the trader's profit.

A short squeeze for iShares 0-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF occurs when it has a large amount of short interest and its stock appreciates in price. This forces short sellers to cover their short interest positions by buying actual shares of SLQD, which in turn drives the price of the stock up even further.

Short interest is typically published by a stock exchange once per month. However, NASDAQ publishes a report for U.S. stocks, including SLQD, twice per month. The most recent reporting period available is September, 15 2022.