Short interest in Central Garden & Pet Co (NASDAQ:CENT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.42M to 1.47M. This put 28.52% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 96.01K shares traded per day, it would take 15.34 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.