Short interest in Jefferies Financial Group Inc (NYSE:JEF) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 10.07M to 10.32M. This put 5.95% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 904.11K shares traded per day, it would take 11.41 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.