Worthington Steel, Inc. (WS)

Every FINRA and SEC series the site collects for Worthington Steel, Inc.: 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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1.6M

Short interest

settlement 2026-08-31

6.4

Days to cover

+14.2% vs prior

77.6%

Short share of volume

2026-09-17

Fails to deliver

settlement 2026-08-31

Mon 28 Sep

Next earnings

estimated; last year 2025-09-29

Insider flow, 90 days

0 buys, 0 sells

As of 2026-09-17.

Short interest

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

As of 31 August 2026, short interest in WS is 1,603,195 shares, up 174,583 shares over the last month. Over the last 48 readings it ranged from 353,588 shares (31 October 2024) to 1,722,346 shares (30 April 2026). The latest reading sits at the top of that range. At the reported average volume of 249K shares a day that is 6.4 days to cover, elevated.

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Settlement	Shares short	Change	Avg daily volume	Days to cover
2026-08-31	1,603,195	+14.2%	249,379	6.43
2026-08-14	1,403,341	-1.8%	183,271	7.66
2026-07-31	1,428,612	-11.6%	230,098	6.21
2026-07-15	1,615,659	+2.5%	286,154	5.65
2026-06-30	1,576,396	-0.3%	549,780	2.87
2026-06-15	1,581,188	-0.9%	238,750	6.62
2026-05-29	1,595,163	+3.8%	218,072	7.31
2026-05-15	1,536,944	-10.8%	240,854	6.38
2026-04-30	1,722,346	+3.3%	211,964	8.13
2026-04-15	1,668,202	+6.3%	295,026	5.65
2026-03-31	1,569,684	+8.5%	484,594	3.24
2026-03-13	1,447,294	+16.4%	271,802	5.32
2026-02-27	1,243,565	+5.9%	229,631	5.42
2026-02-13	1,173,916	+24.8%	300,451	3.91
2026-01-30	940,650	-2.2%	344,383	2.73
2026-01-15	961,795	+1.7%	210,756	4.56
2025-12-31	946,101	-11.7%	340,403	2.78
2025-12-15	1,071,468	+8.7%	201,762	5.31
2025-11-28	986,045	-3.4%	176,736	5.58
2025-11-14	1,020,752	-9.7%	165,358	6.17
2025-10-31	1,130,270	-7.5%	212,695	5.31
2025-10-15	1,221,846	+2.0%	208,830	5.85
2025-09-30	1,197,384	+5.5%	498,905	2.40
2025-09-15	1,134,930	+13.9%	200,298	5.67

Daily short volume

FINRA Reg SHO, last 60 sessions. JSON

As of 17 September 2026, the short share of WS volume is 77.6%, up 3.6 points over the last five sessions. Over the last 52 readings it ranged from 42.2% (4 August 2026) to 87.4% (14 July 2026). The latest reading is 14.3 points above the 30-session average of 63.4%, on 83K shares reported.

Date	Short volume	Total volume	Short share	Exempt
2026-09-17	64K	83K	77.6%	29
2026-09-16	70K	90K	78.3%	0
2026-09-15	80K	142K	56.8%	552
2026-09-14	73K	91K	80.8%	0
2026-09-11	54K	70K	77.2%	0
2026-09-10	54K	72K	74.0%	0
2026-09-09	77K	111K	69.6%	0
2026-09-08	52K	78K	67.1%	0
2026-09-04	51K	87K	59.1%	0
2026-09-03	58K	97K	59.3%	400
2026-09-02	141K	236K	59.4%	0
2026-09-01	45K	74K	60.3%	0
2026-08-31	44K	78K	56.1%	0
2026-08-28	47K	70K	67.5%	1,573
2026-08-27	48K	92K	52.5%	7
2026-08-26	55K	103K	53.9%	0
2026-08-25	59K	114K	51.7%	0
2026-08-24	48K	86K	55.8%	0
2026-08-21	45K	86K	52.6%	0
2026-08-20	91K	141K	64.8%	0
2026-08-19	57K	82K	69.8%	0
2026-08-18	59K	110K	53.9%	0
2026-08-17	29K	41K	69.5%	0
2026-08-14	25K	47K	52.3%	0
2026-08-13	25K	36K	68.6%	92
2026-08-12	35K	66K	52.6%	0
2026-08-11	53K	77K	68.4%	0
2026-08-10	34K	47K	72.4%	1,243
2026-08-07	38K	63K	60.6%	0
2026-08-06	47K	81K	57.8%	0

Fails to deliver

SEC, by settlement date. JSON

As of 31 August 2026, the fails-to-deliver balance in WS is 11 shares, down 10 shares over the last settlement date. Over the last 52 readings it ranged from 1 share (5 August 2026) to 59,556 shares (29 June 2026). The latest reading sits at the bottom of that range.

Settlement	Shares failed	Price	Value
2026-08-31	11	$34.06	$375
2026-08-27	21	$33.92	$712
2026-08-24	66	$34.93	$2K
2026-08-11	1,415	$38.12	$54K
2026-08-06	17	$38.09	$648
2026-08-05	1	$37.88	$38
2026-07-31	2,445	$35.13	$86K
2026-07-20	201	$35.33	$7K
2026-07-06	1,186	$32.02	$38K
2026-06-30	340	$35.16	$12K
2026-06-29	59,556	$38.57	$2.3M
2026-06-24	116	$39.76	$5K
2026-06-15	1,238	$43.45	$54K
2026-05-08	9,920	$40.43	$401K
2026-04-30	5	$36.40	$182
2026-04-28	1,632	$37.71	$62K
2026-04-09	865	$33.51	$29K
2026-03-13	901	$32.68	$29K
2026-03-05	257	$39.08	$10K
2026-02-20	950	$43.56	$41K
2026-02-19	3	$43.98	$132
2026-02-06	58	$45.83	$3K
2026-02-04	2,792	$44.41	$124K
2026-01-27	1,550	$38.72	$60K
2026-01-02	63	$34.62	$2K
2025-12-31	31	$35.45	$1K
2025-12-16	1,632	$35.45	$58K
2025-12-04	1,197	$36.43	$44K
2025-12-01	640	$33.75	$22K
2025-11-17	5,352	$31.67	$169K

Insider trades

SEC Form 4, newest first, 50 of 100 shown. JSON

No open-market insider trades were reported for WS 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: BLYSTONE JOHN B (Executive Chairman) on 2026-07-07.

Date	Insider	Title	Type	Shares	Price	Value	Owned after
2026-07-07	BLYSTONE JOHN B	Executive Chairman	Tax withholding	6K	$32.16	$206K	242K
2026-07-07	BLYSTONE JOHN B	Executive Chairman	Grant	15K	$0.00	$0	248K
2026-07-07	ADAMS TIMOTHY A	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	1K	$32.16	$41K	53K
2026-07-07	ADAMS TIMOTHY A	Chief Financial Officer	Grant	3K	$0.00	$0	55K
2026-06-30	ADAMS TIMOTHY A	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	1K	$33.58	$39K	52K
2026-06-29	BLYSTONE JOHN B	Executive Chairman	Tax withholding	7K	$35.16	$261K	234K
2026-06-26	Heuer Joseph	General Counsel	Grant	5K	$0.00	$0	19K
2026-06-26	Larivey Clifford	President Flat Rolled Stl Proc	Grant	6K	$0.00	$0	70K
2026-06-26	Joseph Gwen	Corporate Controller	Grant	2K	$0.00	$0	4K
2026-06-26	GILMORE GEOFFREY G	President and CEO	Grant	40K	$0.00	$0	345K
2026-06-26	KLINGLER JEFFREY R	Chief Operating Officer	Grant	11K	$0.00	$0	104K
2026-06-26	BLYSTONE JOHN B	Executive Chairman	Grant	15K	$0.00	$0	241K
2026-06-26	ADAMS TIMOTHY A	Chief Financial Officer	Grant	8K	$0.00	$0	52K
2026-06-02	KLINGLER JEFFREY R	Chief Operating Officer	Sell	6K	$44.53	$268K	93K
2026-06-02	KLINGLER JEFFREY R	Chief Operating Officer	Sell	14K	$43.52	$610K	99K
2026-06-02	KLINGLER JEFFREY R	Chief Operating Officer	Option exercise	10K	$14.37	$149K	113K
2026-06-02	KLINGLER JEFFREY R	Chief Operating Officer	Option exercise	6K	$21.51	$135K	103K
2026-06-02	KLINGLER JEFFREY R	Chief Operating Officer	Option exercise	3K	$18.64	$64K	97K
2026-06-01	KLINGLER JEFFREY R	Chief Operating Officer	Sell	200	$43.00	$9K	93K
2026-06-01	KLINGLER JEFFREY R	Chief Operating Officer	Option exercise	200	$21.51	$4K	93K
2026-06-01	ADAMS TIMOTHY A	Chief Financial Officer	Sell	1K	$42.77	$54K	44K
2026-06-01	ADAMS TIMOTHY A	Chief Financial Officer	Sell	1K	$41.70	$46K	45K
2026-06-01	ADAMS TIMOTHY A	Chief Financial Officer	Option exercise	2K	$13.10	$31K	46K
2026-05-22	Larivey Clifford	President Flat Rolled Stl Proc	Sell	11K	$40.09	$445K	64K
2026-05-22	Larivey Clifford	President Flat Rolled Stl Proc	Option exercise	610	$34.10	$21K	75K
2026-05-22	Larivey Clifford	President Flat Rolled Stl Proc	Option exercise	874	$33.36	$29K	75K
2026-05-22	Larivey Clifford	President Flat Rolled Stl Proc	Option exercise	2K	$14.37	$29K	74K
2026-05-22	Larivey Clifford	President Flat Rolled Stl Proc	Option exercise	1K	$21.51	$30K	72K
2026-01-30	BOWSHER JON J	n/a	Buy	3K	$40.15	$100K	18K
2026-01-27	Kelly Scott J	n/a	Buy	7K	$39.11	$274K	16K
2026-01-22	SCHIAVO MARY FACKLER	Director	Disposition	1	$35.14	$20	97K
2026-01-22	SCHIAVO MARY FACKLER	Director	Option exercise	292	n/a	n/a	97K
2025-12-22	KLINGLER JEFFREY R	Chief Operating Officer	Tax withholding	1K	$36.32	$52K	93K
2025-12-22	GILMORE GEOFFREY G	President and CEO	Tax withholding	10K	$36.32	$349K	305K
2025-12-22	BLYSTONE JOHN B	Executive Chairman	Tax withholding	10K	$36.32	$361K	226K
2025-12-22	ADAMS TIMOTHY A	Chief Financial Officer	Tax withholding	971	$36.32	$35K	44K
2025-09-26	Stoe George P	n/a	Grant	8K	$0.00	$0	22K
2025-09-26	SCHIAVO MARY FACKLER	n/a	Grant	6K	$0.00	$0	96K
2025-09-26	RIBEAU SIDNEY A	n/a	Grant	6K	$0.00	$0	79K
2025-09-26	Mistretta Nancy G.	n/a	Grant	6K	$0.00	$0	15K
2025-09-26	McConnell John H II	n/a	Grant	6K	$0.00	$0	43K
2025-09-26	Kelly Scott J	n/a	Grant	6K	$0.00	$0	9K
2025-09-26	DAVIS MARK C	n/a	Grant	6K	$0.00	$0	21K
2025-09-26	Chiappone Charles M	n/a	Grant	6K	$0.00	$0	17K
2025-09-26	BOWSHER JON J	n/a	Grant	6K	$0.00	$0	15K
2025-07-08	Larivey Clifford	President Flat Rolled Stl Proc	Tax withholding	2K	$31.75	$65K	70K
2025-07-08	Larivey Clifford	President Flat Rolled Stl Proc	Grant	5K	$0.00	$0	73K
2025-07-08	KLINGLER JEFFREY R	Chief Operating Officer	Tax withholding	2K	$31.75	$79K	95K
2025-07-08	KLINGLER JEFFREY R	Chief Operating Officer	Grant	5K	$0.00	$0	97K
2025-07-08	GILMORE GEOFFREY G	President and CEO	Tax withholding	9K	$31.75	$298K	315K

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

3 Form 144 notices on file for WS worth $1.4M at the prices reported; 0 in the last 90 days worth $0. Latest: JEFFREY KLINGLER filed on 2026-06-01 to sell 20,236 shares ($854K) from 2026-06-01.

Filed	Seller	Shares	Market value	Of outstanding	Sale from	Broker
2026-06-01	JEFFREY KLINGLEROfficer	20K	$854K	0.040%	2026-06-01	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC Executive Financial Services
2026-06-01	TIM A ADAMSOfficer	2K	$100K	0.005%	2026-06-01	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC Executive Financial Services
2026-05-22	CLIFFORD LARIVEYOfficer	11K	$433K	0.022%	2026-05-22	Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC Executive Financial Services

Large holders (13D and 13G)

One row per reporting person, newest filing first. JSON

3 holders above 5% have filed on WS, all on Schedule 13G (passive). The largest reported stake is BlackRock, Inc. at 10.0% of the class (4,973,243 shares), filed 2026-04-24 for an event on 2026-03-31.

Filed	Form	Holder	Shares	Of class	Event
2026-07-14	13G	Dimensional Fund Advisors LPinvestment adviser	2.6M	5.1%	2026-06-30
2026-04-24	13G/Ano. 3	BlackRock, Inc.parent holding company	5.0M	10.0%	2026-03-31
2026-03-27	13G/Ano. 5	The Vanguard Groupinvestment adviser	0	0.0%	2026-03-13

13F holders

Tracked managers holding WS at their latest 13F. JSON

6 of the 30 tracked managers held WS at their latest 13F, $36.3M in total at quarter-end prices. Fisher Asset Management is the largest at $21.5M (0.0% of its portfolio) as of 2026-06-30. Over the prior quarter 5 added shares and 1 cut.

Fund	Quarter	Shares	Value	Of portfolio	Change in shares
Fisher Asset Management	2026-06-30	640K	$21.5M	0.01%	+384K
Renaissance Technologies	2026-06-30	191K	$6.4M	0.01%	+5K
Citadel Advisors	2026-06-30	137K	$4.6M	0.00%	+82K
AQR Capital Management	2026-06-30	54K	$1.8M	0.00%	+4K
D. E. Shaw & Co.	2026-06-30	32K	$1.1M	0.00%	+3K
Two Sigma Investments	2026-06-30	27K	$908K	0.00%	-34K

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

Worthington Steel, Inc. 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 Worthington Steel, Inc. (WS), SEC CIK 1968487, 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 2026-08-31.JSON and CSV
Daily short volume: FINRA Reg SHO daily filesEvery trading day, loaded the following morning. Latest 2026-09-17.JSON and CSV
Fails to deliver: SEC fails-to-deliver dataTwice a month, a few weeks after the half month ends. Latest 2026-08-31.JSON and CSV
Planned sales: SEC EDGAR Form 144EDGAR read every 30 minutes; a notice is filed on or before the sell order. Latest 2026-06-01.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 2026-07-14.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
Earnings dates: SEC EDGAR 8-K Item 2.02 (full-text search)EDGAR full-text search read twice a day; the estimate is last year's date plus 52 weeks. Latest 2026-07-10.JSON and CSV
Insider trades: SEC EDGAR Form 4EDGAR read every 30 minutes; filings are due two business days after the trade. Latest 2026-07-07.JSON and CSV
Company record: EDGAR filing index for CIK 1968487Ticker, 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, 18 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 WS is sold short?

1,603,195 shares were held short at the 2026-08-31 settlement, 6.4 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 WS's daily short volume?

On 2026-09-17, 64,452 of the 83,024 WS shares reported to FINRA were sold short, 77.6% of the day's reported volume. Short volume is a flow for one day, not a position.

Does WS have fails to deliver?

The SEC's latest file shows 11 WS shares failed to deliver at settlement 2026-08-31. Fails are reported per settlement date and published twice a month with a lag.

Are WS insiders buying or selling?

Have WS insiders filed to sell?

3 Form 144 notices on file for WS worth $1.4M at the prices reported; 0 in the last 90 days worth $0. Latest: JEFFREY KLINGLER filed on 2026-06-01 to sell 20,236 shares ($854K) from 2026-06-01.

Who owns more than 5% of WS?

Which funds hold WS?

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Worthington Steel, Inc. (WS)

Short interest

Daily short volume

Fails to deliver

Insider trades

Planned sales (Form 144)

Large holders (13D and 13G)

13F holders

Worthington Steel, Inc. in the regulatory record

Source and method

How to read it

Other company pages

Datasets

Frequently Asked Questions