Code Snippets
curl "https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=VRSN&key=API_KEY"import requests
url = 'https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=VRSN&key=API_KEY'
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())
const url = 'https://financialdata.net/api/v1/short-interest?identifier=VRSN&key=API_KEY';
const response = await fetch(url);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
Sample Response
[
{
"trading_symbol": "VRSN",
"title_of_security": "VeriSign, Inc. Common Stock",
"market_code": "NNM",
"settlement_date": "2026-09-30",
"shorted_securities": 1978336,
"previous_shorted_securities": 1957572,
"change_in_shorted_securities": 20764,
"percentage_change_in_shorted_securities": 1.06,
"average_daily_volume": 769786,
"days_to_cover": 2.57,
"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
VERISIGN INC/CA
NASDAQ: VRSN- Market Cap:$16.40B
- ISIN:US92343E1029
- Fiscal Year End:12/31
- CEO:James Bidzos
- Employees:928
Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, .web and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the .jobs and .edu sponsored top-level domains.