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A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that Conagra Brands Inc is the #18 broker analyst pick among those stocks screened by The Online Investor for strong stock buyback activity. To make that list, a stock must have repurchased at least 5% of its outstanding shares over the trailing twelve month period.
The most recent short interest data has been released for the 12/15/2017 settlement date, which shows a 2,532,853 share decrease in total short interest for Conagra Brands Inc , to 13,760,133, a decrease of 15.55% since 11/30/2017. 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.