Short interest in NewMarket Corp (NYSE:NEU) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 70.82K to 77.36K. This put 1.01% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 26.76K shares traded per day, it would take 2.89 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.