Short interest in Stanley Black & Decker Inc (NYSE:SWK) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 4.34M to 4.73M. This put 4.04% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 907.04K shares traded per day, it would take 5.22 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.