Short interest in China Petroleum & Chemical Corp (OTC:SNPMF) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 11.94M to 12.76M. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 73.48K shares traded per day, it would take 173.63 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.