Short interest in Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc (NYSE:HII) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 985.06K to 838.37K. This put 2.47% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 460.04K shares traded per day, it would take 1.82 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.