Short interest in BP PLC (NYSE:BP) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 11.81M to 8.36M. This put 0.36% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 11.54M shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.