Short interest in American States Water Co (NYSE:AWR) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 788.55K to 843.99K. This put 3.06% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 491.84K shares traded per day, it would take 1.72 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.