PETROLEO BRASIL/S (PBR.A) Short Interest Ratio & Short Volume

Short interest is the volume of PETROLEO BRASIL/S shares that have been sold short but have not yet been closed out or covered. As of December 15th, investors have sold 1,170,000 shares of PBR.A short. Learn More on PETROLEO BRASIL/S's current short interest.

PETROLEO BRASIL/S saw a decrease in short interest in December. As of December 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,170,000 shares, a decrease of 88.0% from the previous total of 9,710,000 shares. Changes in short volume can be used to identify positive and negative investor sentiment. Investors that short sell a stock are betting that its price will decline in the future. An increase in short sale volume suggests bearish (negative) sentiment among investors. A decrease on short sale volume suggests bullish (positive) sentiment.

Here is how the short interest of companies in the industry of "crude petroleum & natural gas" compare to PETROLEO BRASIL/S: Shell plc (0.25%), TotalEnergies SE (0.29%), Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras (0.46%), Canadian Natural Resources Limited (3.03%), EOG Resources, Inc. (2.88%), Eni S.p.A. (0.04%), Diamondback Energy, Inc. (2.00%), Occidental Petroleum Co. (3.82%), EQT Co. (2.87%), Woodside Energy Group Ltd (0.11%),

As of the most recent reporting period, the following stocks had the largest short interest positions: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. ($10.20 billion), S&P Global Inc. ($9.27 billion), Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited ($8.89 billion), Charter Communications, Inc. ($4.91 billion), Palo Alto Networks, Inc. ($3.82 billion), Wayfair Inc. ($3.47 billion), Lucid Group, Inc. ($3.06 billion), Zscaler, Inc. ($2.54 billion), Teladoc Health, Inc. ($2.27 billion), and Datadog, Inc. ($2.24 billion). View all of the most shorted stocks.

Short selling PBR.A is an investing strategy that aims to generate trading profit from PETROLEO BRASIL/S as its price is falling. PBR.A shares are trading down $1.26 today. To short a stock, an investor borrows shares, sells them and buys the shares back on the public market later to return it to the lender. Short sellers are betting that a stock will decline in price. If the stock does drop after selling, the short seller buys it back at a lower price and returns it to the lender. The difference between the sell price and the buy price is the trader's profit.

A short squeeze for PETROLEO BRASIL/S occurs when it has a large amount of short interest and its stock increases in price. This forces short sellers to cover their short interest positions by buying actual shares of PBR.A, which in turn drives the price of the stock up even further.

Short interest is typically published by a stock exchange once per month. However, NASDAQ publishes a report for U.S. stocks, including PBR.A, twice per month. The most recent reporting period available is December, 15 2021.