Short interest in Rio Tinto PLC (OTC:RTPPF) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 189.73K to 243.57K. This put 0.02% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.17K shares traded per day, it would take 207.47 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.