Short interest in Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 56.02M to 63.09M. This put 0.85% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 21.33M shares traded per day, it would take 2.96 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.