Short interest in Merck KGaA (OTC:MKGAF) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 284.73K to 278.05K. 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 2.52K shares traded per day, it would take 110.16 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.