Short interest in First Citizens BancShares Inc (NASDAQ:FCNCA) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 216.19K to 230.51K. This put 2% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 72.61K shares traded per day, it would take 3.17 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.