Short interest in Astec Industries Inc (NASDAQ:ASTE) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 420.38K to 377.99K. This put 2.38% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 147.76K shares traded per day, it would take 2.56 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.