Short interest
Shares sold short and not yet bought back, as a percentage of the free float.
How to read it
High short interest is a crowded bet against the stock — and the fuel for a short squeeze if the price rises.
How to use it
Measures how crowded the bet against a stock is.
Limitations
Exchanges publish it twice a month, so it lags.
In Kereon
Kereon shows this figure as its data vendor publishes it and does not recompute it, so the vendor's exact inputs — which period's earnings, which balance sheet, which adjustments — are not visible here. The calculation above is the standard definition.
Also called: short interest, short float, of free float.