Short interest in Applied Industrial Technologies Inc (NYSE:AIT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 556.51K to 616.70K. This put 2.3% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 230.82K shares traded per day, it would take 2.67 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.