Code Snippets
curl "https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=GEN&key=API_KEY"import requests
url = 'https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=GEN&key=API_KEY'
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())
const url = 'https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=GEN&key=API_KEY';
const response = await fetch(url);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
Sample Response
[
{
"trading_symbol": "GEN",
"title_of_security": "Gen Digital Inc. Common Stock",
"market_code": "NNM",
"settlement_date": "2026-09-30",
"shorted_securities": 35357325,
"previous_shorted_securities": 35363686,
"change_in_shorted_securities": -6361,
"percentage_change_in_shorted_securities": -0.02,
"average_daily_volume": 16252999,
"days_to_cover": 2.18,
"is_stock_split": false
},
...
]Query Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| identifier | string | The trading symbol for a security. (e.g., MSFT) |
| offset | integer | (Optional) The initial position of the record subset, which indicates how many records to skip. Defaults to 0. (e.g., 100) |
| format | string | (Optional) The format of the returned data, either JSON or CSV. Defaults to JSON. (e.g., json, csv) |
Endpoint Overview
Short interest represents the number of shares of a company that are currently sold short and have not yet been covered. The short interest ratio, also known as days to cover, represents the number of days it would take for all short-sold shares to be covered or repurchased in the market. Our API provides short interest data for over 15,000 securities. There is a limit of 100 records per API call.
Company Profile
Gen Digital Inc.
NASDAQ: GEN- Market Cap:$15.56B
- ISIN:US6687711084
- Fiscal Year End:03/28
- CEO:Vincent Pilette
- Employees:3900
Gen Digital Inc. (formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock Inc.) is a multinational software company co-headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, United States, and Prague, Czech Republic. The company provides cybersecurity software, financial technology, and services. Gen is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock-market index. It is listed on the NASDAQ and Prague Stock Exchange. Its portfolio includes Norton, Avast, LifeLock, Avira, AVG, ReputationDefender, MoneyLion and CCleaner.