Short Interest Declines 64% For BDX
The most recent short interest data has been released for the 74/0/45,1 settlement date, which shows a 7,469,365 share decrease in total short interest for Becton, Dickinson & Co , to 4,178,127.0, a decrease of 64.13% since 12/29/2017. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that we here at Dividend Channel find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares traded.