Short interest in Hanesbrands Inc (NYSE:HBI) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 48.76M to 43.89M. This put 17.19% 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 5.97M shares traded per day, it would take 7.35 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.