Short interest in Marathon Petroleum Corp (NYSE:MPC) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 8.78M to 8.04M. This put 2.5% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 2.32M shares traded per day, it would take 3.47 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.