Short interest in Genuine Parts Co (NYSE:GPC) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 2.87M to 3.00M. This put 2.48% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 995.41K shares traded per day, it would take 3.02 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.