Short interest in Hanesbrands Inc (NYSE:HBI) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 49.37M to 47.25M. This put 18.51% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 5.96M shares traded per day, it would take 7.93 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.