Short interest in John Bean Technologies Corp (NYSE:JBT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.97M to 2.58M. This put 11.3% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 487.08K shares traded per day, it would take 5.29 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.