Short interest in Schlumberger Ltd (NYSE:SLB) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 49.96M to 71.94M. This put 5.15% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 11.79M shares traded per day, it would take 6.1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.