Short interest in Astec Industries Inc (NASDAQ:ASTE) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 499.63K to 520.73K. This put 3.29% 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 268.71K shares traded per day, it would take 1.94 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.