Short interest in The Wendy's Co (NASDAQ:WEN) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 36.26M to 37.62M. This put 70.08% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 8.56M shares traded per day, it would take 4.4 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.