Short interest in Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 13.39M to 14.48M. This put 16.56% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 2.88M shares traded per day, it would take 5.03 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.