Short interest in Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd (OTC:SMTOF) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.00M to 1.19M. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of - shares traded per day, it would take 999.99 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.