Short interest in Shin-Etsu Chemical Co Ltd (OTC:SHECY) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 2.32K to 26.76K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.04M shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.