Short interest in Kennametal Inc (NYSE:KMT) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 6.08M to 5.60M. This put 12.87% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 873.31K shares traded per day, it would take 6.41 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.