Short interest in FirstEnergy Corp (NYSE:FE) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 11.14M to 11.24M. This put 2.54% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 2.21M shares traded per day, it would take 5.1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.