Short interest in Avanos Medical Inc (NYSE:AVNS) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 552.33K to 614.53K. This put 1.91% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 316.02K 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.