Short interest in Vulcan Materials Co (NYSE:VMC) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.77M to 1.85M. This put 1.59% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 740.98K shares traded per day, it would take 2.49 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.