Short interest in Eagle Materials Inc (NYSE:EXP) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 716.75K to 806.00K. This put 2.76% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 270.31K shares traded per day, it would take 2.98 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.