KinderCare Learning Companies (KLC)

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3.7M

Short interest

settlement 2026-10-15

5.2

Days to cover

-0.1 days vs prior

67.3%

Short share of volume

2026-11-02

16,237

Fails to deliver

settlement 2026-10-14

Wed 11 Nov

Next earnings

estimated date

Insider flow, 90 days

0 buys, 0 sells

As of 2026-11-02.

Short interest

FINRA, twice a month. The newest 48 settlements in the table, 48 in the chart. JSON

As of 15 October 2026, short interest in KLC is 3,731,221 shares, up 288,748 shares over the last month. Over the last 48 readings it ranged from 1,219,027 shares (31 October 2024) to 4,764,878 shares (15 May 2026). At the reported average volume of 725K shares a day that is 5.2 days to cover.

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Settlement	Shares short	Change	Avg daily volume	Days to cover
2026-10-15	3,731,221	+10.9%	724,691	5.15
2026-09-30	3,365,037	-2.3%	641,365	5.25
2026-09-15	3,442,473	-27.3%	611,127	5.63
2026-08-31	4,737,300	+13.0%	1,192,603	3.97
2026-08-14	4,193,297	+0.1%	1,099,513	3.81
2026-07-31	4,190,402	-2.7%	435,826	9.61
2026-07-15	4,304,899	-2.6%	612,791	7.03
2026-06-30	4,418,285	+0.2%	965,292	4.58
2026-06-15	4,408,153	+9.7%	619,951	7.11
2026-05-29	4,019,608	-15.6%	1,086,896	3.70
2026-05-15	4,764,878	+25.9%	1,465,199	3.25
2026-04-30	3,784,730	-3.4%	783,810	4.83
2026-04-15	3,918,801	-1.6%	1,169,635	3.35
2026-03-31	3,980,921	-1.1%	2,138,244	1.86
2026-03-13	4,026,277	-3.4%	1,738,481	2.32
2026-02-27	4,166,877	+18.9%	755,542	5.52
2026-02-13	3,503,672	+16.5%	724,637	4.84
2026-01-30	3,008,366	+6.1%	1,090,545	2.76
2026-01-15	2,834,560	+8.6%	673,742	4.21
2025-12-31	2,611,365	-10.3%	646,312	4.04
2025-12-15	2,912,486	-3.4%	911,573	3.20
2025-11-28	3,013,773	+24.3%	1,275,475	2.36
2025-11-14	2,423,752	+8.5%	1,461,423	1.66
2025-10-31	2,233,955	-13.8%	725,412	3.08
2025-10-15	2,592,294	+12.1%	754,472	3.44
2025-09-30	2,313,411	+10.5%	782,249	2.96
2025-09-15	2,092,751	+1.4%	677,570	3.09
2025-08-29	2,063,229	-4.3%	1,252,776	1.65
2025-08-15	2,155,478	+10.4%	1,282,124	1.68
2025-07-31	1,952,518	-8.2%	455,366	4.29
2025-07-15	2,126,073	-2.3%	486,988	4.37
2025-06-30	2,176,780	-1.9%	635,674	3.42
2025-06-13	2,219,745	+29.6%	493,876	4.49
2025-05-30	1,712,351	-19.5%	644,204	2.66
2025-05-15	2,126,918	-5.6%	604,092	3.52
2025-04-30	2,252,913	-10.7%	607,121	3.71
2025-04-15	2,523,315	-3.3%	970,352	2.60
2025-03-31	2,607,946	-9.3%	1,177,184	2.22
2025-03-14	2,874,857	-10.1%	520,702	5.52
2025-02-28	3,196,600	+4.7%	356,148	8.98
2025-02-14	3,052,125	+18.5%	393,348	7.76
2025-01-31	2,575,321	+10.4%	716,824	3.59
2025-01-15	2,332,292	-27.5%	653,125	3.57
2024-12-31	3,215,434	+72.7%	1,130,359	2.84
2024-12-13	1,861,915	+15.3%	574,234	3.24
2024-11-29	1,614,978	+13.6%	671,644	2.40
2024-11-15	1,422,064	+16.7%	318,160	4.47
2024-10-31	1,219,027	+7.2%	321,093	3.80

Daily short volume

FINRA Reg SHO, the last 30 sessions. JSON

As of 2 November 2026, the short share of KLC volume is 67.3%, up 19.8 points over the last five sessions. Over the last 30 readings it ranged from 43.3% (22 September 2026) to 78.3% (14 October 2026). The latest reading is 10.4 points above the 30-session average of 56.9%, on 191K shares reported.

Date	Short volume	Total volume	Short share	Exempt
2026-11-02	129K	191K	67.3%	10
2026-10-30	167K	261K	64.0%	1
2026-10-29	105K	177K	59.1%	1,000
2026-10-28	112K	212K	52.7%	10,119
2026-10-27	121K	274K	44.2%	108
2026-10-26	108K	228K	47.5%	111
2026-10-23	175K	304K	57.5%	4,000
2026-10-22	139K	285K	48.8%	82
2026-10-21	150K	293K	51.3%	3,896
2026-10-20	233K	478K	48.7%	1,177
2026-10-19	392K	642K	61.0%	6,808
2026-10-16	264K	361K	73.3%	30
2026-10-15	145K	307K	47.4%	1,649
2026-10-14	480K	614K	78.3%	9
2026-10-13	173K	253K	68.6%	0
2026-10-12	77K	153K	50.6%	0
2026-10-09	96K	162K	59.5%	48
2026-10-08	54K	109K	49.7%	0
2026-10-07	86K	122K	70.0%	0
2026-10-06	164K	331K	49.6%	0
2026-10-05	200K	354K	56.5%	0
2026-10-02	148K	222K	66.5%	0
2026-10-01	220K	373K	58.9%	0
2026-09-30	259K	590K	43.8%	54
2026-09-29	142K	228K	62.2%	96
2026-09-28	171K	281K	60.9%	205
2026-09-25	140K	238K	58.9%	599
2026-09-24	100K	172K	57.8%	300
2026-09-23	227K	461K	49.3%	0
2026-09-22	52K	120K	43.3%	0

Fails to deliver

SEC, the last 30 settlement dates with a fail. JSON

As of 14 October 2026, the fails-to-deliver balance in KLC is 16,237 shares, up 8,994 shares over the last settlement date. Over the last 30 readings it ranged from 4 shares (14 July 2026) to 22,625 shares (11 August 2026).

Settlement	Shares failed	Price	Value
2026-10-14	16,237	$1.84	$30K
2026-10-13	7,243	$1.85	$13K
2026-10-09	6,980	$1.97	$14K
2026-10-07	2,860	$2.00	$6K
2026-10-01	144	$1.86	$268
2026-09-30	1,847	$1.94	$4K
2026-09-28	1,600	$2.12	$3K
2026-09-18	29	$2.36	$68
2026-09-17	188	$2.34	$440
2026-09-16	6,566	$2.32	$15K
2026-09-15	2,636	$2.38	$6K
2026-09-14	2,709	$2.37	$6K
2026-09-11	920	$2.51	$2K
2026-09-10	133	$2.54	$338
2026-09-03	50	$2.51	$126
2026-09-02	8,738	$2.50	$22K
2026-08-21	5,465	$2.78	$15K
2026-08-20	8,793	$2.91	$26K
2026-08-17	12,346	$2.60	$32K
2026-08-11	22,625	$5.03	$114K
2026-08-10	17	$5.17	$88
2026-07-14	4	$5.11	$20
2026-07-02	138	$4.80	$662
2026-06-29	589	$4.22	$2K
2026-06-25	5,480	$4.18	$23K
2026-06-15	100	$4.13	$413
2026-06-12	502	$4.17	$2K
2026-06-11	9	$3.89	$35
2026-06-04	1,454	$3.77	$5K
2026-06-03	7,150	$3.92	$28K

Insider trades

SEC Form 4, newest first. JSON

No open-market insider trades were reported for KLC in the last 90 days. The most recent filings are listed below. Latest filing: Harrah Jessica (Chief People Officer) on 2026-09-14.

Date	Insider	Title	Type	Shares	Price	Value	Owned after
2026-09-14	Harrah Jessica	Chief People Officer	Tax withholding	288	$2.38	$685	155K
2026-09-14	Amandi Anthony Michael	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	898	$2.38	$2K	468K
2026-08-03	Barse David Michael	Director	Grant	23K	$0.00	$0	23K
2026-06-15	Harrah Jessica	Chief People Officer	Tax withholding	288	$4.13	$1K	155K
2026-06-15	Amandi Anthony Michael	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	898	$4.13	$4K	468K
2026-06-05	Desravines Jean S.	Director	Grant	43K	$0.00	$0	70K
2026-06-05	Nuzzo Michael	Director	Grant	37K	$0.00	$0	84K
2026-06-05	Waxenberg Alyssa Sue	Director	Grant	37K	$0.00	$0	57K
2026-06-05	Deputy Christine	Director	Grant	37K	$0.00	$0	59K
2026-03-19	Nuzzo Michael	Director	Buy	25K	$2.22	$56K	47K
2026-03-18	Wyatt John T.	Chief Executive Officer	Buy	275K	$2.07	$569K	1.0M
2026-03-17	Wyatt John T.	Chief Executive Officer	Buy	219K	$1.96	$429K	763K
2026-03-16	Harrah Jessica	Chief People Officer	Tax withholding	1K	$1.95	$2K	95K
2026-03-16	Amandi Anthony Michael	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	4K	$1.95	$7K	342K
2026-03-16	Wyatt John T.	Chief Executive Officer	Grant	472K	$0.00	$0	544K
2026-03-16	Harrah Jessica	Chief People Officer	Grant	61K	$0.00	$0	156K
2026-03-16	Amandi Anthony Michael	Chief Financial Officer	Grant	128K	$0.00	$0	469K
2026-02-23	Wyatt John T.	Chief Executive Officer	Tax withholding	1K	$3.72	$5K	71K
2026-02-23	Sorhondo Lindsay Curley	Chief Operating Officer	Tax withholding	234	$3.72	$870	139K
2026-02-23	Harrah Jessica	Chief People Officer	Tax withholding	261	$3.72	$971	96K
2026-02-23	Amandi Anthony Michael	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	611	$3.72	$2K	345K
2025-11-21	Wyatt John T.	Director	Tax withholding	2K	$4.18	$10K	73K
2025-11-21	Thompson Paul Dana	Chief Executive Officer	Tax withholding	1K	$4.18	$5K	922K
2025-11-21	Sorhondo Lindsay Curley	Chief Operating Officer	Tax withholding	204	$4.18	$853	140K
2025-11-21	Harrah Jessica	Chief People Officer	Tax withholding	222	$4.18	$928	96K
2025-11-21	Amandi Anthony Michael	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	517	$4.18	$2K	346K
2025-08-26	Wyatt John T.	Director	Tax withholding	2K	$7.31	$17K	3.5M
2025-08-26	Thompson Paul Dana	Chief Executive Officer	Tax withholding	1K	$7.31	$9K	923K
2025-08-26	Harrah Jessica	Chief People Officer	Tax withholding	222	$7.31	$2K	96K
2025-08-26	Amandi Anthony Michael	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	517	$7.31	$4K	346K
2025-06-20	Waxenberg Alyssa Sue	Director	Grant	14K	$0.00	$0	20K
2025-06-20	Wyatt John T.	Director	Tax withholding	14K	$0.00	$0	3.5M
2025-06-20	Nuzzo Michael	Director	Grant	14K	$0.00	$0	22K
2025-06-20	Desravines Jean S.	Director	Grant	14K	$0.00	$0	26K
2025-06-20	Deputy Christine	Director	Grant	14K	$0.00	$0	22K
2025-05-28	Wyatt John T.	Director	Tax withholding	2K	$11.73	$25K	3.5M
2025-05-28	Thompson Paul Dana	Chief Executive Officer	Tax withholding	1K	$11.73	$14K	924K
2025-05-28	Harrah Jessica	Chief People Officer	Tax withholding	222	$11.73	$3K	96K
2025-05-28	Amandi Anthony Michael	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	517	$11.73	$6K	347K
2025-05-19	Thompson Paul Dana	Chief Executive Officer	Tax withholding	7K	$12.29	$90K	925K
2025-05-19	Amandi Anthony Michael	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	3K	$12.29	$38K	347K
2025-05-19	Harrah Jessica	Chief People Officer	Tax withholding	1K	$12.29	$15K	97K
2025-05-19	Wyatt John T.	Director	Tax withholding	9K	$12.29	$109K	3.5M
2025-03-24	Wyatt John T.	Director	Tax withholding	2K	$13.85	$26K	3.5M
2025-03-14	Thompson Paul Dana	Chief Executive Officer	Grant	71K	$0.00	$0	933K
2025-03-14	Wyatt John T.	Director	Grant	2K	$0.00	$0	3.5M
2025-03-14	Desravines Jean S.	Director	Grant	4K	$0.00	$0	12K
2025-03-14	Deputy Christine	Director	Grant	4K	$0.00	$0	8K
2025-03-14	Harrah Jessica	Chief People Officer	Grant	14K	$0.00	$0	98K
2025-03-14	Waxenberg Alyssa Sue	Director	Grant	4K	$0.00	$0	6K
2025-03-14	Amandi Anthony Michael	Chief Financial Officer	Grant	30K	$0.00	$0	350K
2025-03-14	Nuzzo Michael	Director	Grant	4K	$0.00	$0	8K
2025-02-23	Thompson Paul Dana	Chief Executive Officer	Tax withholding	1K	$19.70	$26K	862K
2025-02-23	Wyatt John T.	Director	Tax withholding	2K	$19.70	$39K	3.5M
2025-02-23	Harrah Jessica	Chief People Officer	Tax withholding	262	$19.70	$5K	84K
2025-02-23	Amandi Anthony Michael	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	611	$19.70	$12K	321K
2024-12-03	Thompson Paul Dana	Chief Executive Officer	Tax withholding	2K	$22.46	$38K	863K
2024-12-03	Wyatt John T.	Director	Tax withholding	2K	$22.46	$56K	3.5M
2024-12-03	Harrah Jessica	Chief People Officer	Tax withholding	215	$22.46	$5K	84K
2024-12-03	Amandi Anthony Michael	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	753	$22.46	$17K	321K

Form 4 filings are due within two business days of the trade. Insiders sell for many reasons that say nothing about the company; open-market buys are rarer.

13F holders

Tracked managers holding KLC at their latest 13F. JSON

5 of the 30 tracked managers held KLC at their latest 13F, $25.7M in total at quarter-end prices. AQR Capital Management is the largest at $8.2M (0.0% of its portfolio) as of 2026-06-30. Over the prior quarter 4 added shares and 1 cut.

Fund	Quarter	Shares	Value	Of portfolio	Change in shares
AQR Capital Management	2026-06-30	1.9M	$8.2M	0.00%	+1.2M
Millennium Management	2026-06-30	1.8M	$7.5M	0.00%	+271K
D. E. Shaw & Co.	2026-06-30	1.1M	$4.7M	0.00%	+395K
Point72 Asset Management	2026-06-30	1.1M	$4.6M	0.01%	+950K
Two Sigma Investments	2026-06-30	172K	$732K	0.00%	-27K

Only the 30 tracked managers on the funds hub; a 13F reports long positions in US listed stock at quarter end, 45 days late, and says nothing about shorts or positions sold since.

What this page is

KinderCare Learning Companies in the regulatory record

Regulators publish company data in separate files that never sit next to each other: FINRA's twice-monthly short interest, its daily short sale volume, the SEC's fails-to-deliver counts, and each insider's Form 4. A company page puts those series for one ticker on one URL, with planned sales, large holders, 13F holders and financials beside them, so the short position, the daily flow, the settlement fails and what insiders are doing can be read together.

Each section has its own history table, a one-line summary of the latest figures and its own JSON and CSV links, and says when its source last updated.

This page follows KinderCare Learning Companies (KLC), SEC CIK 1873529, listed on NYSE, classified by the SEC as services-child day care services. The cross-market tables live on the short interest and insider transactions hubs.

Source and updates

Short interest: FINRA consolidated short interestSource: FINRA.Twice a month, about eight business days after settlement. Latest 2026-10-15.JSON and CSV
Daily short volume: FINRA Reg SHO daily filesSource: FINRA.Every trading day, the morning after FINRA posts it. Latest 2026-11-02.JSON and CSV
Fails to deliver: SEC fails-to-deliver dataSource: SEC.Twice a month, a few weeks after the half month ends. Latest 2026-10-14.JSON and CSV
13F holders: SEC EDGAR Form 13F-HRSource: SEC.Quarterly, filed within 45 days of quarter end; 30 tracked managers. Latest 2026-06-30.JSON and CSV
Earnings dates: SEC EDGAR 8-K filings (Item 2.02)Source: SEC.Twice a day. Reported dates come from the company's 8-K filings; the next date is marked as an estimate until the 8-K arrives. Latest 2026-08-13.JSON and CSV
Insider trades: SEC EDGAR Form 4Source: SEC.New filings appear shortly after the SEC posts them; they're due two business days after the trade. Latest 2026-09-14.JSON and CSV
Company record: EDGAR filing index for CIK 1873529Ticker, name and exchange from the SEC's company list, refreshed weekly.
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How to read it

Read the position against the flow: rising short interest with a high daily short share is new shorting; rising short interest with a normal short share is old shorts holding on.
Insider buys next to a large short position are rare and stand out; insider sells next to one are common and mean little.
Fails to deliver matter relative to the float, not in absolute shares; a million failed shares in a mega cap is noise.

Analysis of what the data shows, not advice. XOOMAR does not recommend buying, selling or holding anything.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much of KLC is sold short?

3,731,221 shares were held short at the 2026-10-15 settlement, 5.2 days of average volume. FINRA publishes the next count about eight business days after the 15th and the last business day of the month.

What is KLC's daily short volume?

On 2026-11-02, 128,522 of the 191,096 KLC shares reported to FINRA were sold short, 67.3% of the day's reported volume. Short volume is a flow for one day, not a position.

Does KLC have fails to deliver?

The SEC's latest file shows 16,237 KLC shares failed to deliver at settlement 2026-10-14. Fails are reported per settlement date and published twice a month with a lag.

Are KLC insiders buying or selling?

No open-market insider trades were reported for KLC in the last 90 days. The most recent filings are listed below. Latest filing: Harrah Jessica (Chief People Officer) on 2026-09-14.

Which tracked 13F managers own KLC?

5 of the 30 tracked 13F managers held KLC shares at their latest filing, $25.7M in all. The largest: Cliff Asness's AQR Capital Management (1.9M shares, $8.2M), Izzy Englander's Millennium Management (1.8M shares, $7.5M), D. E. Shaw & Co. (1.1M shares, $4.7M), Steve Cohen's Point72 Asset Management (1.1M shares, $4.6M), Two Sigma Investments (172K shares, $732K).

Data on this page is provided for informational purposes only and is not financial advice. See our editorial policy.

KinderCare Learning Companies (KLC)

Short interest

Daily short volume

Fails to deliver

Insider trades

13F holders

KinderCare Learning Companies in the regulatory record

Source and updates

How to read it

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Datasets

Frequently Asked Questions