Short interest in Universal Security Instruments Inc (AMEX:UUU) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 42.80K to 44.47K. This put 2.15% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 16.49K shares traded per day, it would take 2.7 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.