Short Interest in Empire Company Limited (OTCMKTS:EMLAF) Increases By 6.6%

Empire Company Limited (OTCMKTS:EMLAF) was the recipient of a large increase in short interest in July. As of July 15th, there was short interest totalling 1,073,000 shares, an increase of 6.6% from the June 30th total of 1,006,600 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,800 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 383.2 days.

Empire Trading Up 3.0 %

Empire stock traded up $0.78 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $26.53. The stock had a trading volume of 100 shares, compared to its average volume of 9,799. The company has a 50-day moving average of $24.92 and a two-hundred day moving average of $24.85. Empire has a fifty-two week low of $22.27 and a fifty-two week high of $29.18.

Empire Company Profile

Empire Company Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the food retail and related real estate businesses in Canada. It operates through two segments, Food Retailing, and Investments and Other Operations. The company owns, affiliates, and franchises retail stores under various retail banners, including Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Farm Boy, Longo's, and Lawtons Drugs; and operates grocery e-commerce stores under the banners, such as Voilà, Grocery Gateway, IGA.net, and ThriftyFoods.com.