Short interest in MSA Safety Inc (NYSE:MSA) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 282.42K to 294.66K. This put 0.91% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 165.61K shares traded per day, it would take 1.78 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.