Valaris Ltd (VAL)

Every FINRA and SEC series the site collects for Valaris Ltd: short interest with days to cover, daily short sale volume, fails to deliver and Form 4 insider trades. Listed on NYSE.

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5.9M

Short interest

settlement 2026-08-14

4.9

Days to cover

+1.5% vs prior

52.5%

Short share of volume

2026-09-11

264

Fails to deliver

settlement 2026-08-07

Insider flow, 90 days

0 buys, 0 sells

As of 2026-09-11.

Short interest

FINRA, twice a month; the last 12 months shown, all 48 settlements in the JSON

As of 14 August 2026, short interest in VAL is 5,907,749 shares, down 612,012 shares over the last month. Over the last 48 readings it ranged from 5,691,867 shares (13 February 2026) to 13,545,346 shares (15 April 2025). The latest reading sits at the bottom of that range. At the reported average volume of 1.2M shares a day that is 4.9 days to cover.

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Settlement	Shares short	Change	Avg daily volume	Days to cover
2026-08-14	5,907,749	+1.5%	1,205,864	4.90
2026-07-31	5,820,596	-10.7%	977,427	5.96
2026-07-15	6,519,761	+5.1%	900,510	7.24
2026-06-30	6,202,202	-8.4%	1,151,956	5.38
2026-06-15	6,768,030	-2.9%	811,662	8.34
2026-05-29	6,972,262	-5.9%	884,961	7.88
2026-05-15	7,408,455	+3.0%	875,399	8.46
2026-04-30	7,194,680	-5.0%	1,046,237	6.88
2026-04-15	7,575,917	-4.4%	883,048	8.58
2026-03-31	7,922,444	+12.5%	1,208,168	6.56
2026-03-13	7,042,158	-0.7%	943,015	7.47
2026-02-27	7,087,982	+24.5%	1,877,606	3.78
2026-02-13	5,691,867	-13.7%	3,666,239	1.55
2026-01-30	6,593,107	+8.9%	1,192,409	5.53
2026-01-15	6,056,575	-8.5%	958,135	6.32
2025-12-31	6,621,696	-11.1%	1,103,105	6.00
2025-12-15	7,445,255	-3.8%	1,067,277	6.98
2025-11-28	7,742,617	-11.8%	811,830	9.54
2025-11-14	8,774,495	-0.5%	876,048	10.02
2025-10-31	8,821,634	-18.1%	1,372,366	6.43
2025-10-15	10,776,901	-1.8%	1,090,325	9.88
2025-09-30	10,975,563	+8.0%	1,156,168	9.49
2025-09-15	10,161,092	+5.1%	1,256,437	8.09
2025-08-29	9,669,343	+6.3%	1,111,757	8.70

Daily short volume

FINRA Reg SHO, last 60 sessions. JSON

As of 11 September 2026, the short share of VAL volume is 52.5%, down 17.3 points over the last five sessions. Over the last 52 readings it ranged from 36.8% (1 July 2026) to 80.0% (10 July 2026). The latest reading is in line with the 30-session average of 54.4%, on 618K shares reported.

Date	Short volume	Total volume	Short share	Exempt
2026-09-11	324K	618K	52.5%	0
2026-09-10	395K	840K	47.0%	0
2026-09-09	375K	845K	44.4%	422
2026-09-08	253K	541K	46.7%	700
2026-09-04	289K	571K	50.7%	16
2026-09-03	141K	202K	69.7%	0
2026-09-02	257K	602K	42.7%	0
2026-09-01	195K	436K	44.7%	0
2026-08-31	74K	171K	43.4%	0
2026-08-28	147K	318K	46.2%	0
2026-08-27	137K	255K	53.8%	0
2026-08-26	78K	128K	61.5%	0
2026-08-25	87K	154K	56.2%	0
2026-08-24	73K	160K	45.8%	0
2026-08-21	169K	350K	48.2%	0
2026-08-20	250K	490K	50.9%	0
2026-08-19	208K	475K	43.7%	250
2026-08-18	182K	313K	58.4%	0
2026-08-17	204K	411K	49.5%	0
2026-08-14	325K	674K	48.2%	0
2026-08-13	382K	681K	56.1%	0
2026-08-12	243K	405K	59.9%	100
2026-08-11	243K	448K	54.1%	0
2026-08-10	388K	654K	59.4%	0
2026-08-07	163K	209K	77.9%	0
2026-08-06	293K	451K	65.0%	0
2026-08-05	126K	182K	69.3%	0
2026-08-04	120K	170K	70.6%	0
2026-08-03	135K	192K	70.3%	0
2026-07-31	440K	977K	45.0%	0

Fails to deliver

SEC, by settlement date. JSON

As of 7 August 2026, the fails-to-deliver balance in VAL is 264 shares, up 221 shares over the last settlement date. Over the last 52 readings it ranged from 1 share (27 February 2026) to 47,644 shares (12 December 2025). The latest reading sits at the bottom of that range.

Settlement	Shares failed	Price	Value
2026-08-07	264	$77.21	$20K
2026-08-04	43	$76.82	$3K
2026-07-30	13,707	$74.18	$1.0M
2026-07-20	178	$76.54	$14K
2026-07-16	454	$76.94	$35K
2026-07-07	54	$73.53	$4K
2026-06-30	1,171	$74.53	$87K
2026-06-24	230	$78.54	$18K
2026-06-18	45	$83.05	$4K
2026-06-15	32	$89.95	$3K
2026-06-03	529	$92.73	$49K
2026-06-01	10,131	$92.63	$938K
2026-04-30	71	$103.98	$7K
2026-04-28	6,878	$97.35	$670K
2026-04-27	29	$91.19	$3K
2026-04-23	107	$90.46	$10K
2026-04-20	1,423	$88.56	$126K
2026-04-15	48	$92.01	$4K
2026-04-13	28,024	$97.59	$2.7M
2026-04-09	273	$99.97	$27K
2026-04-07	796	$97.44	$78K
2026-04-06	587	$98.04	$58K
2026-04-02	369	$96.38	$36K
2026-03-27	6,250	$101.94	$637K
2026-03-23	15	$92.52	$1K
2026-03-20	100	$95.68	$10K
2026-03-17	20	$91.54	$2K
2026-03-13	204	$92.80	$19K
2026-03-11	1,400	$91.09	$128K
2026-03-10	1,656	$90.81	$150K

Insider trades

SEC Form 4, newest first. JSON

No open-market insider trades were reported for VAL in the last 90 days. The most recent filings are listed below; grants and option exercises carry a weaker signal than voluntary trades. Latest filing: Barron Melissa (Controller) on 2026-07-03.

Date	Insider	Title	Type	Shares	Price	Value	Owned after
2026-07-03	Barron Melissa	Controller	Tax withholding	260	$75.35	$20K	18K
2026-04-07	Vukadin Davor	SVP & General Counsel	Tax withholding	30	$99.70	$3K	20K
2026-04-07	Vukadin Davor	SVP & General Counsel	Grant	221	$0.00	$0	20K
2026-04-07	Weber Christopher T	SVP - CFO	Tax withholding	50	$99.70	$5K	62K
2026-04-07	Weber Christopher T	SVP - CFO	Grant	379	$0.00	$0	62K
2026-04-07	Lyne Matthew	SVP - CCO	Tax withholding	60	$99.70	$6K	34K
2026-04-07	Lyne Matthew	SVP - CCO	Grant	379	$0.00	$0	34K
2026-04-07	Luca Gilles	SVP - COO	Tax withholding	50	$99.70	$5K	84K
2026-04-07	Luca Gilles	SVP - COO	Grant	379	$0.00	$0	84K
2026-04-07	Dibowitz Anton	President & CEO	Tax withholding	141	$99.70	$14K	255K
2026-04-07	Dibowitz Anton	President & CEO	Grant	1K	$0.00	$0	255K
2026-04-01	Barron Melissa	Controller	Tax withholding	20	$96.38	$2K	10K
2026-03-05	Vukadin Davor	SVP & General Counsel	Tax withholding	479	$90.59	$43K	20K
2026-03-05	Weber Christopher T	SVP - CFO	Tax withholding	830	$90.59	$75K	62K
2026-03-05	Lyne Matthew	SVP - CCO	Tax withholding	991	$90.59	$90K	33K
2026-03-05	Luca Gilles	SVP - COO	Tax withholding	830	$90.59	$75K	83K
2026-03-05	Dibowitz Anton	President & CEO	Tax withholding	2K	$90.59	$211K	254K
2026-03-03	Weber Christopher T	SVP - CFO	Tax withholding	1K	$90.63	$108K	63K
2026-03-03	Vukadin Davor	SVP & General Counsel	Tax withholding	690	$90.63	$63K	20K
2026-03-03	Lyne Matthew	SVP - CCO	Tax withholding	1K	$90.63	$131K	34K
2026-03-03	Luca Gilles	SVP - COO	Tax withholding	1K	$90.63	$108K	84K
2026-03-03	Dibowitz Anton	President & CEO	Tax withholding	3K	$90.63	$309K	256K
2026-03-02	Vukadin Davor	SVP & General Counsel	Grant	3K	$0.00	$0	21K
2026-03-02	Weber Christopher T	SVP - CFO	Grant	5K	$0.00	$0	64K
2026-03-02	Lyne Matthew	SVP - CCO	Grant	5K	$0.00	$0	36K
2026-03-02	Luca Gilles	SVP - COO	Grant	5K	$0.00	$0	85K
2026-03-02	Dibowitz Anton	President & CEO	Grant	14K	$0.00	$0	259K
2025-12-31	Weber Christopher T	SVP - CFO	Tax withholding	1K	$50.40	$51K	59K
2025-12-31	Vukadin Davor	SVP & General Counsel	Tax withholding	546	$50.40	$28K	17K
2025-12-31	Lyne Matthew	SVP - CCO	Tax withholding	1K	$50.40	$63K	31K
2025-12-31	Luca Gilles	SVP - COO	Tax withholding	1K	$50.40	$51K	80K
2025-12-31	Dibowitz Anton	President & CEO	Tax withholding	3K	$50.40	$138K	245K
2025-10-01	Barron Melissa	Controller	Tax withholding	203	$51.22	$10K	10K
2025-09-03	Luca Gilles	SVP - COO	Sell	35K	$48.84	$1.7M	81K
2025-07-03	Barron Melissa	Controller	Tax withholding	253	$45.44	$11K	10K
2025-07-01	Barron Melissa	Controller	Tax withholding	260	$43.90	$11K	11K
2025-07-01	Barron Melissa	Controller	Grant	4K	$0.00	$0	11K
2025-06-13	Hughes Catherine	n/a	Grant	6K	$0.00	$0	13K
2025-06-13	Goldschmid Joseph	n/a	Grant	5K	$0.00	$0	36K
2025-06-12	LEYKUM ELIZABETH	n/a	Disposition	2K	$45.60	$70K	39K
2025-06-12	LEYKUM ELIZABETH	n/a	Option exercise	4K	$0.00	$0	40K
2025-06-12	Johansen Kristian	n/a	Disposition	986	$45.60	$45K	5K
2025-06-12	Johansen Kristian	n/a	Option exercise	2K	$0.00	$0	6K
2025-06-12	Hughes Catherine	n/a	Tax withholding	198	$45.60	$9K	7K

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 the rarer, stronger signal.

Planned sales (Form 144)

Newest first. JSON

2 Form 144 notices on file for VAL worth $284.3M at the prices reported; 2 in the last 90 days worth $284.3M. Latest: Oak Hill Advisors, L.P. (1) filed on 2026-09-03 to sell 1,409,130 shares ($130.4M) from 2026-09-03.

Filed	Seller	Shares	Market value	Of outstanding	Sale from	Broker
2026-09-03	Oak Hill Advisors, L.P. (1)Shareholder	1.4M	$130.4M	2.029%	2026-09-03	Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC
2026-08-11	Oak Hill Advisors, L.P. (1)Shareholder	1.8M	$154.0M	2.592%	2026-08-11	Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

Large holders (13D and 13G)

One row per reporting person, newest filing first. JSON

1 holder above 5% has filed on VAL, 1 on Schedule 13D (active intent). The largest reported stake is OAK HILL ADVISORS LP at 4.4% of the class (3,038,600 shares), filed 2026-08-12 for an event on 2026-08-10.

Filed	Form	Holder	Shares	Of class	Event
2026-08-12	13D/Ano. 4	OAK HILL ADVISORS LPinvestment adviser, partnership	3.0M	4.4%	2026-08-10

13F holders

Tracked managers holding VAL at their latest 13F. JSON

7 of the 30 tracked managers held VAL at their latest 13F, $207.0M in total at quarter-end prices. Millennium Management is the largest at $78.1M (0.0% of its portfolio) as of 2026-06-30. Over the prior quarter 5 added shares and 2 cut.

Fund	Quarter	Shares	Value	Of portfolio	Change in shares
Millennium Management	2026-06-30	1.1M	$78.1M	0.03%	+925K
Citadel Advisors	2026-06-30	874K	$63.5M	0.01%	+389K
D. E. Shaw & Co.	2026-06-30	451K	$32.8M	0.02%	+21K
Bridgewater Associates	2026-06-30	322K	$23.4M	0.10%	+286K
Renaissance Technologies	2026-06-30	67K	$4.9M	0.01%	-95K
AQR Capital Management	2026-06-30	36K	$2.6M	0.00%	-43K
Two Sigma Investments	2026-06-30	25K	$1.8M	0.00%	+3K

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

Valaris Ltd 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 pulls every series the site collects for one ticker onto one URL, keyed by the SEC's own ticker list, 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 summary sentence built from the rows (last value, change, range with dates) and its own JSON and CSV links. Nothing on the page is written by a model; the sentences change only when the data does. A page exists only for companies with data in at least two series, and every section says when its source last updated.

This page follows Valaris Ltd (VAL), SEC CIK 314808, listed on NYSE. The cross-market tables live on the short interest and insider transactions hubs.

Source and method

Short interest: FINRA consolidated short interestTwice a month, about eight business days after settlement. Latest 2026-08-14.JSON and CSV
Daily short volume: FINRA Reg SHO daily filesEvery trading day, loaded the following morning. Latest 2026-09-11.JSON and CSV
Fails to deliver: SEC fails-to-deliver dataTwice a month, a few weeks after the half month ends. Latest 2026-08-07.JSON and CSV
Planned sales: SEC EDGAR Form 144EDGAR read every 30 minutes; a notice is filed on or before the sell order. Latest 2026-09-03.JSON and CSV
Large holders: SEC EDGAR Schedule 13D and 13GEDGAR read every 30 minutes; 13D within five business days of crossing 5%, 13G on the passive schedule. Latest 2026-08-12.JSON and CSV
13F holders: SEC EDGAR Form 13F-HRQuarterly, filed within 45 days of quarter end; 30 tracked managers. Latest 2026-06-30.JSON and CSV
Insider trades: SEC EDGAR Form 4EDGAR read every 30 minutes; filings are due two business days after the trade. Latest 2026-07-03.JSON and CSV
Company record: EDGAR filing index for CIK 314808Ticker, name and exchange from the SEC's company list, refreshed weekly.
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Data checks. Every dataset is checked against its source once a day. This dataset passed the last run, 12 Sep 05:40 UTC.

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 crowded short are the combination that has historically preceded squeezes; insider sells next to a crowded short 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.

Datasets

Frequently Asked Questions

How much of VAL is sold short?

5,907,749 shares were held short at the 2026-08-14 settlement, 4.9 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 VAL's daily short volume?

On 2026-09-11, 323,943 of the 617,522 VAL shares reported to FINRA were sold short, 52.5% of the day's reported volume. Short volume is a flow for one day, not a position.

Does VAL have fails to deliver?

The SEC's latest file shows 264 VAL shares failed to deliver at settlement 2026-08-07. Fails are reported per settlement date and published twice a month with a lag.

Are VAL insiders buying or selling?

Have VAL insiders filed to sell?

Who owns more than 5% of VAL?

Which funds hold VAL?

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Valaris Ltd (VAL)

Short interest

Daily short volume

Fails to deliver

Insider trades

Planned sales (Form 144)

Large holders (13D and 13G)

13F holders

Valaris Ltd in the regulatory record

Source and method

How to read it

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Datasets

Frequently Asked Questions