Short interest in AMETEK Inc (NYSE:AME) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 2.54M to 2.13M. This put 1.04% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 885.31K shares traded per day, it would take 2.4 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.