Short interest in Hovnanian Enterprises Inc (NYSE:HOV) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 226.12K to 242.29K. This put 4.94% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 74.49K shares traded per day, it would take 3.25 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.