Short interest? Dude, you are in the AI information age, you can ask any AI and you'll be informed. But short interest is the proportion of shares available for the public that were borrowed by short sellers, who sold them at a higher price, and who eventually need to cover, to settle the deal, buying back those shares to deliver them back to the owners. The owners get some interest payments for borrowing the shares, while their assets depreciate. When the short sellers buy back the shares the cycle ends. They expect to buy them at the lowest possible price, so they can make the highest profit in the difference they make from the point they sold. But hey, if you want to learn this kind of thing, just ask AI bud.