Short interest in Empire Petroleum Corp (AMEX:EP) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.08M to 1.10M. This put 7.16% 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 78.26K shares traded per day, it would take 14.06 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.