Short interest in American States Water Co (NYSE:AWR) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 649.90K to 765.90K. This put 2.93% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 243.63K shares traded per day, it would take 3.14 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.