Short interest in United Rentals Inc (NYSE:URI) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 2.86M to 2.80M. This put 4.8% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 282.20K shares traded per day, it would take 9.92 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.