Short interest in Academy Sports and Outdoors Inc (NASDAQ:ASO) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 7.17M to 8.17M. This put 22.04% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 2.26M shares traded per day, it would take 3.62 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.