Short interest in AutoNation Inc (NYSE:AN) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 2.28M to 1.98M. This put 7.88% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 521.19K shares traded per day, it would take 3.8 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.