Short interest in United Rentals Inc (NYSE:URI) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.87M to 1.89M. This put 3.26% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 477.80K shares traded per day, it would take 3.95 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.