Short interest in Merck KGaA (OTC:MKKGY) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 1.56K to 439.00. 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 280.22K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.