Short interest in Xcel Energy Inc (NASDAQ:XEL) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 7.97M to 8.96M. This put 1.79% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 2.74M shares traded per day, it would take 3.27 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.