Short interest in National Presto Industries Inc (NYSE:NPK) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 123.69K to 139.97K. This put 3.35% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 36.49K shares traded per day, it would take 3.84 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.