Short interest in Aflac Inc (NYSE:AFL) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 7.86M to 7.89M. This put 1.43% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Aflac gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Aflac's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 2.16M shares traded per day, it would take 3.65 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.