Short interest in Vital Energy (NYSE:VTLE) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 7.49M to 6.95M. This put 26.81% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 768.86K shares traded per day, it would take 9.04 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.