Code Snippets
curl "https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=PAYX&key=API_KEY"import requests
url = 'https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=PAYX&key=API_KEY'
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())
const url = 'https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=PAYX&key=API_KEY';
const response = await fetch(url);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
Sample Response
[
{
"trading_symbol": "PAYX",
"title_of_security": "Paychex, Inc. Common Stock",
"market_code": "NNM",
"settlement_date": "2026-09-30",
"shorted_securities": 18828544,
"previous_shorted_securities": 19816479,
"change_in_shorted_securities": -987935,
"percentage_change_in_shorted_securities": -4.99,
"average_daily_volume": 4406044,
"days_to_cover": 4.27,
"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
PAYCHEX INC
NASDAQ: PAYX- Market Cap:$35.96B
- ISIN:US7043261079
- Fiscal Year End:05/31
- CEO:John Gibson
- Employees:19000
Paychex, Inc. is an American company that provides human resources, payroll, and employee benefits outsourcing services for small- to medium-sized businesses. Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Rochester, New York, the company has more than 100 offices serving approximately 800,000 payroll clients in the U.S. and Europe. Paychex is ranked 681st on the Fortune 500 list of largest corporations by revenue.