Short interest in AvalonBay Communities Inc (NYSE:AVB) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 2.97M to 2.97M. This put 2.89% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 697.98K shares traded per day, it would take 4.25 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.