Short interest in Ultrapar Participacoes SA (NYSE:UGP) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 3.29M to 5.36M. This put 0.68% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 3.47M shares traded per day, it would take 1.55 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.