Short interest in Vital Energy (NYSE:VTLE) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 7.00M to 6.77M. This put 26.12% 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 627.96K shares traded per day, it would take 10.78 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.