Short interest in Halliburton Co (NYSE:HAL) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 29.45M to 27.43M. This put 4.19% 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 13.63M shares traded per day, it would take 2.01 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.