Short interest in Vale SA (NYSE:VALE) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 72.92M to 76.58M. This put 1.79% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 30.66M shares traded per day, it would take 2.5 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.