Short interest in Diageo PLC (NYSE:DEO) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 557.15K to 584.65K. This put 0.11% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.11M 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.