Short interest in Minerals Technologies Inc (NYSE:MTX) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 419.30K to 428.50K. This put 1.95% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 179.61K shares traded per day, it would take 2.39 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.