Short interest in Yum China Holdings Inc (NYSE:YUMC) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 10.59M to 11.87M. This put 3.15% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.94M shares traded per day, it would take 6.13 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.