Short interest in Hovnanian Enterprises Inc (NASDAQ:HOVNP) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 8.23K to 8.08K. This put -% 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 8.86K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.