Short interest in Vital Energy (NYSE:VTLE) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 5.25M to 5.63M. This put 21.71% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 718.82K shares traded per day, it would take 7.83 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.