Short interest in Vital Energy (NYSE:VTLE) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 6.81M to 6.64M. This put 25.61% 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 887.72K shares traded per day, it would take 7.48 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.