Short interest in Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE:RY) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 16.69M to 18.06M. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.65M shares traded per day, it would take 10.94 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.