Short interest in MSC Industrial Direct Co Inc (NYSE:MSM) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 2.47M to 2.78M. This put 7.07% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 840.91K shares traded per day, it would take 3.31 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.