Short interest in Merck KGaA (OTC:MKGAF) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 264.34K to 285.15K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.83K shares traded per day, it would take 155.82 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.