Short interest in Avient Corp (NYSE:AVNT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.38M to 1.48M. This put 2.17% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 558.75K shares traded per day, it would take 2.64 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.