Short interest in Ameris Bancorp (NYSE:ABCB) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 812.97K to 875.59K. This put 1.84% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 367.43K shares traded per day, it would take 2.38 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.