Short interest in BP PLC (NYSE:BP) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 11.11M to 13.85M. This put 0.6% 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 8.13M shares traded per day, it would take 1.7 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.