Short interest in Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 14.44M to 14.86M. This put 1.2% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 3.47M shares traded per day, it would take 4.29 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.