Short interest in Murphy Oil Corp (NYSE:MUR) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 10.66M to 10.32M. This put 10.36% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.34M shares traded per day, it would take 7.73 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.