Short interest in Baytex Energy Corp (NYSE:BTE) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 52.36M to 58.67M. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 12.72M shares traded per day, it would take 4.61 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.