Short interest in Asahi Kasei Corp (OTC:AHKSY) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 20.04K to 26.86K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 64.40K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.