Short interest in Albertsons Companies Inc (NYSE:ACI) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 12.47M to 16.53M. This put 3.93% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 2.95M shares traded per day, it would take 5.6 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.