Short interest in Materials Select Sector SPDR (ARCA:XLB) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 15.54M to 15.65M. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 4.97M shares traded per day, it would take 3.15 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.