Short interest in Smithfield Foods Inc (NASDAQ:SFD) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 3.35M to 4.32M. This put 16.83% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 2.47M shares traded per day, it would take 1.75 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.