Short interest in American Water Works Co Inc (NYSE:AWK) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 3.72M to 3.68M. This put 2.16% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 883.20K shares traded per day, it would take 4.17 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.