Afya Ltd
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Afya Ltd (NASDAQ:AFYA) is a publicly traded company in the Trade & Services sector. Wiseek has independently scored 18 items for AFYA at importance 7 or higher on its 1–10 market-impact scale. Its most recent item scored 7 or higher is dated 2026-10-01, rated 7/10. Across its 18 most recent items scored 7 or higher, the top rating is 9/10, with 11 rated 8 or above. Recent SEC coverage for AFYA spans 6-K, 4, 144, 20-F.
Recent high-impact activity:
- Afya's Major Shareholders Lock In Merger Support With BRL 100M+ Penalties
- Afya-YDUQS Merger Agreement Filed: 69/31 Split, R$650M Break-Up Fee, Locked Box Terms
- Bertelsmann Drives Afya-YDUQS Merger to Expand Education Business
- Afya and Yduqs Sign Definitive Merger Agreement: 69/31 Ownership Split, Nasdaq Delisting
- YDUQS and Afya Seal Merger, Material Fact Due Thursday
Financial Snapshot
Short Interest & Short Volume
5.15 days to coverFINRA reported short interest of 1,411,623 shares in AFYA as of the September 15, 2026 settlement, a 163.2% increase from the prior period — about 5.2 days to cover at its recent average daily volume. On October 2, 2026, 34.1% of AFYA volume reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities was marked short.
Daily short sale volume covers trades reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities and is not the same as short interest (bi-monthly reported positions). Source: FINRA — FINRA is the owner and source of this short interest and short sale volume data; it may not be redistributed.
Insider Transactions
AFYA files as a Foreign Private Issuer (FPI). Under SEC Exchange Act Section 16(a), officers, directors, and 10% owners of FPIs are exempt from Form 4 insider-transaction reporting requirements. Comparable disclosures, when applicable, appear in the company's Form 20-F (annual) or Form 6-K (interim) filings on SEC EDGAR.