Short interest in Synchrony Financial (NYSE:SYF) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 14.66M to 20.81M. This put 8.14% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 4.49M shares traded per day, it would take 4.63 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.