Short interest in Russel Metals Inc (OTC:RUSMF) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 316.27K to 340.46K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 19.60K shares traded per day, it would take 17.37 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.