Short interest in Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc (NYSE:SMFG) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 4.14M to 4.33M. This put 0.13% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.26M shares traded per day, it would take 3.45 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.