Short interest in The AES Corp (NYSE:AES) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 22.31M to 30.42M. This put 6.51% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 14.05M shares traded per day, it would take 2.17 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.