It means if you hold the stock now and it's settled in your account after the third business day (you get paid if there is forward stock split), the rest of the millions of shares trading day in and day out without settlement, never existed. That means those shares have a short interest. It means if you are naked short-selling this stock, you are S.O.L.
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