Short interest in James Hardie Industries PLC (NYSE:JHX) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 32.56K to 172.34K. This put 0.04% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 80.35K shares traded per day, it would take 2.15 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.