Short interest in Chesapeake Energy Corp (NASDAQ:CHK) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 20.53M to 19.02M. This put 14.5% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.28M shares traded per day, it would take 14.85 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.