Short interest in Altria Group Inc (NYSE:MO) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 24.19M to 26.16M. This put 1.53% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 6.97M shares traded per day, it would take 3.75 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.