Short interest in United States Steel Corp (NYSE:X) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 17.47M to 18.08M. This put 8.11% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 5.28M shares traded per day, it would take 3.42 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.