Short interest in Acuity Brands Inc (NYSE:AYI) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 1.36M to 1.33M. This put 5.7% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 178.96K shares traded per day, it would take 7.41 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.