Short interest in Lloyds Banking Group PLC (NYSE:LYG) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 8.83M to 13.57M. This put 0.09% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 10.68M shares traded per day, it would take 1.27 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.