Short interest in Houston American Energy Corp (AMEX:HUSA) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 870.40K to 884.13K. This put 8.79% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 576.97K shares traded per day, it would take 1.53 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.