Short interest in Schlumberger Ltd (NYSE:SLB) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 31.88M to 35.27M. This put 2.47% 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 15.13M shares traded per day, it would take 2.33 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.