Short interest in Pilgrims Pride Corp (NASDAQ:PPC) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 6.29M to 6.70M. This put 16.2% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 713.22K shares traded per day, it would take 9.39 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.