Short interest in Ocean Power Technologies Inc (AMEX:OPTT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 2.80M to 10.56M. This put 8.44% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 68.33M shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.