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

A fail-to-deliver happens when a trade in T isn't settled by the delivery date — the seller doesn't hand over the shares on time. The SEC publishes the aggregate number of T shares that failed to deliver on each settlement date. The latest published figure is 70.00 shares (settled 2026-06-12).

Does a high FTD mean T 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 T 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 T'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 T is HOLD, 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

AT&T INC. (T) fails to deliver

Our ratingHoldB

Latest fails

70.00

settled 2026-06-12

Peak in window

35.8K

2026-05-15

vs trailing median

0.0×

Below trend

Latest value

$1.61K

qty × SEC prior close

Fails-to-deliver over time

12 settlement prints · shares failed

peak latestQuantity only — no price data on the chart.

Fails-to-deliver history

T fails-to-deliver by settlement date, from SEC data
Settlement date	Shares failed	SEC price	Approx. value
2026-06-12	70.00	$23.00	$1.61K
2026-06-11	2.39K	$23.21	$55.4K
2026-06-10	66.00	$22.71	$1.50K
2026-06-05	34.2K	$22.77	$780K
2026-06-03	712.00	$24.64	$17.5K
2026-06-01	11.3K	$24.80	$280K
2026-05-27	2.00	$25.02	$50.04
2026-05-26	186.00	$25.26	$4.70K
2026-05-18	6.63K	$24.03	$159K
2026-05-15	35.8K	$24.65	$882K
2026-04-23	13.1K	$25.98	$342K
2026-04-15	57.00	$25.62	$1.46K

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 T 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 T?: A fail-to-deliver happens when a trade in T isn't settled by the delivery date — the seller doesn't hand over the shares on time. The SEC publishes the aggregate number of T shares that failed to deliver on each settlement date. The latest published figure is 70.00 shares (settled 2026-06-12).
Does a high FTD mean T 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 T 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 T'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 T is HOLD, based on the company's filings rather than settlement mechanics. Use the fails history as one input alongside the fundamentals.

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Fails-to-deliver history

T fails-to-deliver by settlement date, from SEC data
Settlement date	Shares failed	SEC price	Approx. value
2026-06-12	70.00	$23.00	$1.61K
2026-06-11	2.39K	$23.21	$55.4K
2026-06-10	66.00	$22.71	$1.50K
2026-06-05	34.2K	$22.77	$780K
2026-06-03	712.00	$24.64	$17.5K
2026-06-01	11.3K	$24.80	$280K
2026-05-27	2.00	$25.02	$50.04
2026-05-26	186.00	$25.26	$4.70K
2026-05-18	6.63K	$24.03	$159K
2026-05-15	35.8K	$24.65	$882K
2026-04-23	13.1K	$25.98	$342K
2026-04-15	57.00	$25.62	$1.46K

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 T 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 T?: A fail-to-deliver happens when a trade in T isn't settled by the delivery date — the seller doesn't hand over the shares on time. The SEC publishes the aggregate number of T shares that failed to deliver on each settlement date. The latest published figure is 70.00 shares (settled 2026-06-12).
Does a high FTD mean T 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 T 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 T'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 T is HOLD, based on the company's filings rather than settlement mechanics. Use the fails history as one input alongside the fundamentals.