Short interest in Japan Petroleum Exploration Co Ltd (OTC:JPTXF) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 80.23K to 82.83K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 44.00 shares traded per day, it would take 999.99 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.