What are fails-to-deliver (FTD) for J?

A fail-to-deliver happens when a trade in J isn't settled by the delivery date — the seller doesn't hand over the shares on time. The SEC publishes the aggregate number of J shares that failed to deliver on each settlement date. The latest published figure is 15.7K shares (settled 2026-06-04).

Does a high FTD mean J is heavily shorted?

Not directly. Fails-to-deliver is a settlement metric, not short interest — fails arise from mechanical settlement issues, market-making, and long as well as short sellers. A persistent, large fail relative to a name's own history can be worth noting, but FTD alone is not a measure of how shorted a stock is.

How often is J FTD data updated?

The SEC releases fails-to-deliver data twice a month — one file for the first half of each month and one for the second — with a lag. Settlement itself is T+1 (the business day after the trade). Under Regulation SHO, participants must generally close out short-sale fails by the next settlement day (longer windows exist for long sales, bona-fide market making, and certain deemed-to-own securities), and names with large persistent fails can join the exchange threshold-security list after 5 consecutive settlement days. This page rebuilds as new files publish.

Is J's fails-to-deliver a buy or sell signal?

On its own, no — FTD is context, not a verdict. Our current SEC-grounded rating on J is BUY, based on the company's filings rather than settlement mechanics. Use the fails history as one input alongside the fundamentals.

Fails-to-deliver · SEC settlement data

JACOBS SOLUTIONS INC. (J) fails to deliver

Our ratingBuyC

Latest fails

15.7K

settled 2026-06-04

Peak in window

127K

2026-04-17

vs trailing median

1.8×

Elevated

Latest value

$1.90M

qty × SEC prior close

Fails-to-deliver over time

4 settlement prints · shares failed

peak latestQuantity only — no price data on the chart.

Fails-to-deliver history

J fails-to-deliver by settlement date, from SEC data
Settlement date	Shares failed	SEC price	Approx. value
2026-06-04	15.7K	$121.28	$1.90M
2026-06-01	8.48K	$119.86	$1.02M
2026-04-24	745.00	$127.58	$95.0K
2026-04-17	127K	$126.25	$16.0M

How to read this data

What a fail is. A fail-to-deliver occurs when the seller in a trade doesn’t deliver the shares by the settlement date. The figure here is the aggregate number of shares of J that failed to deliver on each settlement date, as reported by the SEC.
Settlement is T+1. US equities settle one business day after the trade (T+1 since May 2024), so the settlement date shown is one business day after the trade that failed.
The SEC publishes twice a month. Fails data is released in two files per month — the first and second halves — on a lag, so the most recent settlement dates appear only after the next publication.
Reg SHO close-out. Participants must generally close out short-sale fails by the next settlement day after they arise (longer windows apply to long-sale and bona-fide market-making fails, and a 35-calendar-day window only to certain deemed-to-own securities). Names whose fails stay large for 5 consecutive settlement days join the exchange threshold-security list, which brings stricter close-out duties — so persistent large fails are the exception, not the norm.
Not short interest. Fails arise from settlement mechanics and market making as well as short selling, and are not a direct measure of how heavily a stock is shorted. The SEC price column is the prior-day closing price the SEC ships in the same file — we use it only to approximate a dollar value; no market-data feed is involved.

Source: SEC fails-to-deliver data (public domain).

Common questions

What are fails-to-deliver (FTD) for J?: A fail-to-deliver happens when a trade in J isn't settled by the delivery date — the seller doesn't hand over the shares on time. The SEC publishes the aggregate number of J shares that failed to deliver on each settlement date. The latest published figure is 15.7K shares (settled 2026-06-04).
Does a high FTD mean J is heavily shorted?: Not directly. Fails-to-deliver is a settlement metric, not short interest — fails arise from mechanical settlement issues, market-making, and long as well as short sellers. A persistent, large fail relative to a name's own history can be worth noting, but FTD alone is not a measure of how shorted a stock is.
How often is J FTD data updated?: The SEC releases fails-to-deliver data twice a month — one file for the first half of each month and one for the second — with a lag. Settlement itself is T+1 (the business day after the trade). Under Regulation SHO, participants must generally close out short-sale fails by the next settlement day (longer windows exist for long sales, bona-fide market making, and certain deemed-to-own securities), and names with large persistent fails can join the exchange threshold-security list after 5 consecutive settlement days. This page rebuilds as new files publish.
Is J's fails-to-deliver a buy or sell signal?: On its own, no — FTD is context, not a verdict. Our current SEC-grounded rating on J is BUY, based on the company's filings rather than settlement mechanics. Use the fails history as one input alongside the fundamentals.

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Settlement date

Shares failed

SEC price

Approx. value

2026-06-04

15.7K

$121.28

$1.90M

2026-06-01

8.48K

$119.86

$1.02M

2026-04-24

745.00

$127.58

$95.0K

2026-04-17

127K

$126.25

$16.0M

How to read this data

What a fail is. A fail-to-deliver occurs when the seller in a trade doesn’t deliver the shares by the settlement date. The figure here is the aggregate number of shares of J that failed to deliver on each settlement date, as reported by the SEC.
Settlement is T+1. US equities settle one business day after the trade (T+1 since May 2024), so the settlement date shown is one business day after the trade that failed.
The SEC publishes twice a month. Fails data is released in two files per month — the first and second halves — on a lag, so the most recent settlement dates appear only after the next publication.
Reg SHO close-out. Participants must generally close out short-sale fails by the next settlement day after they arise (longer windows apply to long-sale and bona-fide market-making fails, and a 35-calendar-day window only to certain deemed-to-own securities). Names whose fails stay large for 5 consecutive settlement days join the exchange threshold-security list, which brings stricter close-out duties — so persistent large fails are the exception, not the norm.
Not short interest. Fails arise from settlement mechanics and market making as well as short selling, and are not a direct measure of how heavily a stock is shorted. The SEC price column is the prior-day closing price the SEC ships in the same file — we use it only to approximate a dollar value; no market-data feed is involved.

Source: SEC fails-to-deliver data (public domain).

Common questions

What are fails-to-deliver (FTD) for J?: A fail-to-deliver happens when a trade in J isn't settled by the delivery date — the seller doesn't hand over the shares on time. The SEC publishes the aggregate number of J shares that failed to deliver on each settlement date. The latest published figure is 15.7K shares (settled 2026-06-04).
Does a high FTD mean J is heavily shorted?: Not directly. Fails-to-deliver is a settlement metric, not short interest — fails arise from mechanical settlement issues, market-making, and long as well as short sellers. A persistent, large fail relative to a name's own history can be worth noting, but FTD alone is not a measure of how shorted a stock is.
How often is J FTD data updated?: The SEC releases fails-to-deliver data twice a month — one file for the first half of each month and one for the second — with a lag. Settlement itself is T+1 (the business day after the trade). Under Regulation SHO, participants must generally close out short-sale fails by the next settlement day (longer windows exist for long sales, bona-fide market making, and certain deemed-to-own securities), and names with large persistent fails can join the exchange threshold-security list after 5 consecutive settlement days. This page rebuilds as new files publish.
Is J's fails-to-deliver a buy or sell signal?: On its own, no — FTD is context, not a verdict. Our current SEC-grounded rating on J is BUY, based on the company's filings rather than settlement mechanics. Use the fails history as one input alongside the fundamentals.