Short interest in Halliburton Co (NYSE:HAL) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 24.63M to 36.81M. This put 5.56% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 14.42M shares traded per day, it would take 2.55 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.