Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF (USMC) Short Interest Ratio & Short Volume $60.58 +0.65 (+1.08%) As of 01/17/2025 03:59 PM Eastern Add Compare Share Share Short Interest Stock AnalysisChartDividendHeadlinesHoldingsOptions ChainOwnershipRatingsShort InterestTrends Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF Short Interest DataPrincipal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF (USMC) has a short interest of 40,600 shares. This marks a 40.48% increase in short interest from the previous month. The short interest ratio (days to cover) is 0.4, indicating that it would take 0.4 days of the average trading volume of 74,809 shares to cover all short positions.Current Short Interest40,600 sharesPrevious Short Interest28,900 sharesChange Vs. Previous Month+40.48%Dollar Volume Sold Short$2.44 millionShort Interest Ratio0.4 Days to CoverLast Record DateDecember 31, 2024Outstanding Shares43,100,000 sharesPercentage of Shares Shorted0.09%Today's Trading Volume148,303 sharesAverage Trading Volume74,809 sharesToday's Volume Vs. 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Email Address Skip Charts & View Short Interest HistoryShort Interest ChartDays to Cover ChartShort Percent of Float ChartUSMC Short Interest Over TimeUSMC Days to Cover Over TimeUSMC Percentage of Float Shorted Over Time Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF Short Interest History Export to ExcelReport DateTotal Shares Sold ShortDollar Volume Sold ShortChange from Previous ReportPercentage of Float ShortedDays to CoverPrice on Report Date 12/31/202440,600 shares $2.44 million +40.5%N/A0.4 $60.03 12/15/202428,900 shares $1.77 million +221.1%N/A0.3 $61.34 11/30/20249,000 shares $542,880.00 -8.2%N/A0.1 $60.32 11/15/20249,800 shares $572,222.00 -46.2%N/A0.1 $58.39 10/31/202418,200 shares $1.03 million +82.0%N/A0.3 $56.78 10/15/202410,000 shares $573,200.00 -59.4%N/A0.2 $57.32 9/30/202424,600 shares $1.40 million -24.3%N/A0.4 $56.99 9/15/202432,500 shares $1.82 million +606.5%N/A0.5 $55.89 8/31/20244,600 shares $257,830.00 -83.2%N/A0.1 $56.05 8/15/202427,300 shares $1.50 million +131.4%N/A0.4 $54.92 Get the Latest News and Ratings for USMC and Related StocksEnter your email address below to receive the latest news and analysts' ratings for Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. 7/31/202411,800 shares $635,312.00 +90.3%N/A0.2 $53.84 7/15/20246,200 shares $344,534.00 -55.7%N/A0.1 $55.57 6/30/202414,000 shares $759,500.00 -26.3%N/A0.3 $54.25 6/15/202419,000 shares $1.02 million -12.4%N/A0.4 $53.87 5/31/202421,700 shares $1.12 million -37.8%N/A0.4 $51.58 5/15/202434,900 shares $1.82 million +378.1%N/A0.4 $52.18 4/30/20247,300 shares $359,671.00 -58.3%N/A0.1 $49.27 4/15/202417,500 shares $863,800.00 -20.8%N/A0.2 $49.36 3/31/2024135,800 shares $6.97 million +358.8%N/A0.5 $51.36 3/15/202429,600 shares $1.49 million +111.4%N/A0.3 $50.44 2/29/202414,000 shares $709,240.00 +27.3%N/A0.1 $50.66 2/15/202411,000 shares $551,100.00 -69.4%N/A0.1 $50.10 1/31/202436,000 shares $1.73 million -4.3%N/A0.4 $48.04 1/15/202437,600 shares $1.78 million +36.7%N/A0.3 $47.24 12/31/202327,500 shares $1.29 million +17.0%N/A0.1 $46.76 12/15/202323,500 shares $1.09 million +12.4%N/A0.1 $46.37 11/30/202320,900 shares $946,561.00 +36.6%N/A0.1 $45.29 11/15/202315,300 shares $683,451.00 +86.6%N/A0.1 $44.67 10/31/20238,200 shares $341,448.00 -64.5%N/A0 $41.64 10/15/202323,100 shares $997,920.00 +32.0%N/A0.2 $43.20 9/30/202317,500 shares $749,700.00 +4.8%N/A0.5 $42.84 9/15/202316,700 shares $740,478.00 +165.1%N/A0.5 $44.34 8/31/20236,300 shares $283,500.00 -89.1%N/A0.2 $45.00 8/15/202357,900 shares $2.54 million +23.5%N/A2.1 $43.89 7/31/202346,900 shares $2.12 million +7.1%N/A1.7 $45.14 7/15/202343,800 shares $1.93 million +64.0%N/A1.5 $44.11 6/30/202326,700 shares $1.17 million -27.5%N/A1 $43.66 6/15/202336,800 shares $1.60 million +283.3%N/A1.4 $43.55 5/31/20239,600 shares $396,864.00 -36.4%N/A0.4 $41.34 5/15/202315,100 shares $606,567.00 -29.1%N/A0.6 $40.17Grab This Altcoin Before Trump's Crypto Announcement (Ad)The #1 Coin Poised to Soar Under Trump Pro-Crypto White House could make this the investment opportunity of a lifetime! Click HERE to access this free report before it's too late 4/30/202321,300 shares $861,372.00 -20.8%N/A0.9 $40.44 4/15/202326,900 shares $1.08 million +140.2%N/A1 $40.22 3/31/202311,200 shares $445,819.36 -25.3%N/A0.4 $39.81 3/15/202315,000 shares $563,250.00 -62.1%N/A0.5 $37.55 2/28/202339,600 shares $1.49 million +106.3%N/A1.1 $37.54 2/15/202319,200 shares $748,608.00 +97.9%N/A0.5 $38.99 1/31/20239,700 shares $368,309.00 -40.1%N/A0.3 $37.97 1/15/202316,200 shares $608,148.00 -31.9%N/A0.4 $37.54 12/30/202223,800 shares $858,228.00 +61.9%N/A0.6 $36.06 12/15/202214,700 shares $541,107.00 +21.5%N/A0.4 $36.81 11/30/202212,100 shares $464,045.89 +15.2%N/A0.1 $38.35 11/15/202210,500 shares $392,332.50 -8.7%N/A0.1 $37.37 10/31/202211,500 shares $415,150.00 -54.6%N/A0.1 $36.10 10/15/202225,300 shares $855,646.00 No ChangeN/A0.2 $33.82 9/30/202235,000 shares $1.18 million +27.3%N/A0.2 $33.76 9/15/202227,500 shares $1.01 million +27.3%N/A0.2 $36.60 8/31/202221,600 shares $806,544.00 +56.5%N/A0.1 $37.34 8/15/202213,800 shares $565,938.00 +55.1%N/A0.1 $41.01 7/31/20228,900 shares $351,995.00 +7.2%N/A0.1 $39.55 7/15/20228,300 shares $311,084.00 -76.4%N/A0.1 $37.48 6/30/202235,200 shares $1.29 million -38.6%N/A0.6 $36.60 6/15/202257,300 shares $2.10 million +227.4%N/A0.9 $36.60 5/31/202217,500 shares $692,650.00 +8.7%N/A0.2 $39.58 5/15/202216,100 shares $626,612.00 -43.7%N/A0.2 $38.92 4/30/202228,600 shares $1.13 million -2.7%N/A0.3 $39.43 4/15/202229,400 shares $1.23 million -28.8%N/A0.3 $41.83 3/31/202241,300 shares $1.76 million -32.5%N/A0.3 $42.67 3/15/202261,200 shares $2.49 million +266.5%N/A0.4 $40.62 2/28/202216,700 shares $685,034.00 -49.7%N/A0.1 $41.02 2/15/202233,200 shares $1.39 million +2.8%N/A0.1 $41.83 1/31/202232,300 shares $1.37 million +64.0%N/A0.1 $42.50 1/15/202219,700 shares $855,768.00 +155.8%N/A0.1 $43.44 12/31/20217,700 shares $341,110.00 -9.4%N/A0 $44.30 12/15/20218,500 shares $374,340.00 -71.8%N/A0 $44.04 11/30/202130,100 shares $1.27 million -34.3%N/A0.2 $42.32 11/15/202145,800 shares $1.98 million +353.5%N/A0.4 $43.14 10/29/202110,100 shares $432,886.00 -53.9%N/A0.3 $42.86 10/15/202121,900 shares $906,660.00 -41.0%N/A0.7 $41.40 9/30/202137,100 shares $1.50 million +222.6%N/A1.1 $40.32 9/15/202111,500 shares $478,055.00 -90.7%N/A0.3 $41.57 8/31/2021123,500 shares $5.18 million +536.6%N/A4.4 $41.97 8/13/202119,400 shares $807,816.00 +9.0%N/A0.7 $41.64 7/30/202117,800 shares $727,130.00 -66.0%N/A0.6 $40.85 7/15/202152,400 shares $2.12 million -26.3%N/A0.8 $40.47 6/30/202171,100 shares $2.82 million +35.7%N/A1.2 $39.72 6/15/202152,400 shares $2.04 million -8.9%N/A0.9 $39.01 5/28/202157,500 shares $2.22 million +202.6%N/A1 $38.68 5/14/202119,000 shares $725,990.00 +18,900.0%N/A0.3 $38.21 4/30/2021100 shares $3,863.00 -90.0%N/A0 $38.63 4/15/20211,000 shares $37,960.00 -47.4%N/A0 $37.96Grab This Altcoin Before Trump's Crypto Announcement (Ad)The #1 Coin Poised to Soar Under Trump Pro-Crypto White House could make this the investment opportunity of a lifetime! Click HERE to access this free report before it's too late 3/31/20211,900 shares $69,712.90 +111.1%N/A0 $36.69 3/15/2021900 shares $32,742.00 -89.9%N/A0 $36.38 2/26/20218,900 shares $317,196.00 +368.4%N/A0.1 $35.64 2/12/20211,900 shares $69,749.00 -67.8%N/A0 $36.71 1/29/20215,900 shares $210,453.00 +51.3%N/A0.1 $35.67 1/15/20213,900 shares $139,230.00 No ChangeN/A0 $35.70 9/30/202020,000 shares $660,200.00 +334.8%N/A0.2 $33.01 9/15/202016,800 shares $557,934.72 +265.2%N/A0.2 $33.21 8/31/20204,600 shares $156,860.00 -43.2%N/A0.1 $34.10 8/14/20208,100 shares $261,144.00 -68.1%N/A0.1 $32.24 7/31/202025,400 shares $795,782.00 +161.9%N/A0.4 $31.33 7/15/20209,700 shares $302,737.00 -4.0%N/A0.1 $31.21 6/30/202010,100 shares $298,657.00 -54.7%N/A0.2 $29.57 6/15/202022,300 shares $658,503.39 -84.2%N/A0.3 $29.53 5/29/2020141,400 shares $4.20 million +836.4%N/A1.5 $29.72 5/15/202015,100 shares $431,860.00 -71.9%N/A0.2 $28.60 4/30/202053,700 shares $1.56 million +347.5%N/A0.5 $29.05 4/15/202012,000 shares $342,720.00 -18.9%N/A0.1 $28.56 3/31/202014,800 shares $383,616.00 +60.9%N/A0.2 $25.92 3/13/20209,200 shares $249,412.00 -88.4%N/A0.4 $27.11 2/28/202079,400 shares $2.28 million +81.3%N/A1 $28.67 2/14/202043,800 shares $1.43 million +56.4%N/A0.6 $32.76 1/31/202028,000 shares $880,320.00 +311.8%N/A0.5 $31.44 USMC Short Interest - Frequently Asked Questions What is Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF's current short interest? Short interest is the volume of Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. As of December 31st, traders have sold 40,600 shares of USMC short. Learn More on Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF's current short interest. Is Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF's short interest increasing or decreasing? Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF saw a increase in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totaling 40,600 shares, an increase of 40.5% from the previous total of 28,900 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. How does Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF's short interest compare to its competitors? Here is how the short interest of companies compare to Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF: ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (18.33%), First Trust NASDAQ 100 Equal Weighted Index Fund (0.49%), VictoryShares Free Cash Flow ETF (1.52%), Pacer Trendpilot 100 ETF (0.04%), First Trust Large Cap Core AlphaDEX Fund (0.07%), Direxion NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index Shares (12.90%), First Trust Large Cap Value AlphaDEX Fund (0.22%), First Trust Large Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund (0.08%), First Trust Growth Strength ETF (0.14%), iShares India 50 ETF (1.78%), Which stocks are the most shorted right now? As of the most recent reporting period, the following stocks had the largest short interest positions: AppLovin Co. ($5.83 billion), Charter Communications, Inc. ($3.77 billion), Reddit, Inc. ($2.98 billion), The Kroger Co. ($2.97 billion), International Paper ($2.64 billion), SoFi Technologies, Inc. ($1.99 billion), Rivian Automotive, Inc. ($1.93 billion), Onsemi ($1.81 billion), SoundHound AI, Inc. ($1.59 billion), and Moderna, Inc. ($1.57 billion). View all of the most shorted stocks. What does it mean to sell short Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF stock? Short selling USMC is an investing strategy that aims to generate trading profit from Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF as its price is falling. USMC shares are trading up $0.65 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. How does a short squeeze work against Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF? A short squeeze for Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF occurs when it has a large amount of short interest and its stock increases in price. This forces short sellers to cover their short interest positions by buying actual shares of USMC, which in turn drives the price of the stock up even further. How often is Principal U.S. Mega-Cap ETF's short interest reported? Short interest is typically published by a stock exchange once per month. However, NASDAQ publishes a report for U.S. stocks, including USMC, twice per month. The most recent reporting period available is December, 31 2024. 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