Short interest in The Wendy's Co (NASDAQ:WEN) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 37.62M to 44.24M. This put 82.4% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 7.15M shares traded per day, it would take 6.19 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.