Short interest in Powell Industries Inc (NASDAQ:POWL) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.31M to 1.45M. This put 18.12% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 546.74K shares traded per day, it would take 2.66 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.