Short interest in First Trust Specialty Fnc & Fncl Oppor (NYSE:FGB) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 54.78K to 47.05K. This put 0.62% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 55.94K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.