Short interest in Assurant Inc (NYSE:AIZ) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 698.34K to 834.00K. This put 2.15% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 353.11K shares traded per day, it would take 2.36 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.