Short interest in Freeport-McMoRan Inc (NYSE:FCX) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 18.66M to 22.87M. This put 1.6% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 16.41M shares traded per day, it would take 1.39 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.