Short interest in Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE:JEF) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 10.95M to 10.41M. This put 6.01% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.28M shares traded per day, it would take 8.15 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.