Short interest in American Public Education Inc (NASDAQ:APEI) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 973.79K to 753.64K. This put 4.78% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 84.64K shares traded per day, it would take 8.9 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.