Short interest in American Eagle Outfitters Inc (NYSE:AEO) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 16.32M to 16.00M. This put 15.77% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for American Eagle Outfitters gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of American Eagle Outfitters's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 3.30M shares traded per day, it would take 4.85 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.