Short interest in Hecla Mining Co (NYSE:HL) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 16.26M to 16.32M. This put 2.59% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 15.36M shares traded per day, it would take 1.06 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.