Short interest in Universal Corp (NYSE:UVV) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 455.13K to 444.40K. This put 2.61% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 171.39K shares traded per day, it would take 2.59 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.