Short interest in NRG Energy Inc (NYSE:NRG) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 9.41M to 9.57M. This put 6.3% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 2.71M shares traded per day, it would take 3.54 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.