SLM — structural market context
Structural market context from public regulatory and market data, shown with its as-of dates. Descriptive only: nothing on this page is a recommendation, a prediction, or advice to buy or sell any security.
What changed
As of the close on Oct 23. Each line shows the earlier value, the later value and their dates.
Close $19.41 (Oct 23) vs $21.76 (Oct 22): −10.78%.
4.59× its 20-session average (2.8M) on Oct 23.
Includes pre- and post-market trading.
Short interest 17.1M shares (settlement Sep 30) vs 17.9M (Sep 15).
No new publication in this window. Latest: settlement Sep 30, published Oct 10.
Latest file (settlements Sep 15–Sep 30, published Oct 16): 3 days with fails, largest 2K shares on Sep 16.
Previous file (settlements Sep 1–Sep 14, published Sep 30): 2 days with fails, largest 41K shares on Sep 2.
No new publication in this window.
3 rating actions recorded.
Barclays — Price target change — Oct 23
Wells Fargo — Rating maintained — Oct 23
RBC Capital — Price target change — Oct 23
None recorded in this window.
SLM events and their magnitude
Latest SEC filing in the event study
8-K 2.02 · Earnings release · filed 2026-10-22 · View on sec.gov ↗
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SLM short interest & days to cover
FINRA consolidated short interest, reported twice a month and published ~2 weeks after each settlement date. % of float uses reported free float. · as of 2026-09-30 (25d ago)
SLM fails-to-deliver (FTD)
SEC fails-to-deliver files, published twice a month with ~6 weeks of delay.
SLM analyst ratings
Rating actions as published by the firms, from public feeds. They are not graded here.
Frequently asked questions
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SLM: the full history
Latest rows shown. Full history, market-wide screens, cluster detection and the context journal live in the dashboard.
Not financial advice. Trading involves risk. Descriptive structural context, never a recommendation.