Short interest in Central Garden & Pet Co (NASDAQ:CENTA) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 710.39K to 827.61K. This put 2.19% 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 256.65K shares traded per day, it would take 3.22 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.