Short interest in Stepan Co (NYSE:SCL) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 282.98K to 350.89K. This put 2.32% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 85.15K shares traded per day, it would take 4.12 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.