Short interest in Central Securities Corp (AMEX:CET) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 7.84K to 12.16K. This put 0.08% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 17.92K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.