Short interest in Exxon Mobil Corp (NYSE:XOM) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 39.29M to 44.14M. This put 0.99% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 11.75M shares traded per day, it would take 3.76 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.