GOOGL Short Interest Up 41.0% in April

$Alphabet-A(GOOGL.US)$ was the target of a large increase in short interest in April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totalling 2,510,000 shares, an increase of 41.0% from the April 15th total of 1,780,000 shares. Approximately 0.8% of the company’s stock are sold short. Based on an average daily volume of 1,840,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.4 days.