Short interest in The AES Corp (NYSE:AES) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 19.30M to 24.52M. This put 3.95% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 14.97M shares traded per day, it would take 1.64 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.