Short interest in Peabody Energy Corp (NYSE:BTU) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 16.33M to 17.08M. This put 17.98% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 2.51M shares traded per day, it would take 6.81 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.