Short interest in Kosmos Energy Ltd (NYSE:KOS) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 40.58M to 41.71M. This put 11.73% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 7.03M shares traded per day, it would take 5.93 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.