Short interest in Marathon Oil Corp (NYSE:MRO) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 8.57M to 8.33M. This put 1.71% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 4.96M shares traded per day, it would take 1.68 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.