Short interest in Valero Energy Corp (NYSE:VLO) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 14.74M to 13.51M. This put 4.24% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 2.86M shares traded per day, it would take 4.72 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.