Short interest in Paychex Inc (NASDAQ:PAYX) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 15.03M to 14.40M. This put 4.48% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.74M shares traded per day, it would take 8.28 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.