Short interest in Prudential Financial Inc (NYSE:PRU) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 5.69M to 6.03M. This put 1.93% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.51M shares traded per day, it would take 3.99 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.