Short interest in Provident Financial Services Inc (NYSE:PFS) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 2.99M to 2.99M. This put 2.77% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 624.07K shares traded per day, it would take 4.8 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.