Short interest in Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 21.17M to 17.99M. This put 0.75% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 5.44M shares traded per day, it would take 3.31 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.