Short interest in Acuity Brands Inc (NYSE:AYI) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 681.50K to 790.82K. This put 3.24% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 486.56K shares traded per day, it would take 1.63 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.