Short interest in Japan Tobacco Inc (OTC:JAPAY) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 20.63K to 23.84K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 111.82K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.