Short interest in Empire Petroleum Corp (AMEX:EP) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 1.42M to 1.39M. This put 8.94% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 22.15K shares traded per day, it would take 62.66 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.