Short interest in Insteel Industries Inc (NYSE:IIIN) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 444.60K to 555.80K. This put 3.69% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 263.53K shares traded per day, it would take 2.11 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.