Short interest in British American Tobacco PLC (NYSE:BTI) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 5.00M to 6.44M. This put 0.42% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 4.50M shares traded per day, it would take 1.43 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.