Short interest in Japan Petroleum Exploration Co Ltd (OTC:JPTXF) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 362.14K to 361.47K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of - shares traded per day, it would take 999.99 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.