Short interest in Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 48.59M to 50.45M. This put 1.2% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 20.07M shares traded per day, it would take 2.51 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.