Short interest in Franklin Universal Trust (NYSE:FT) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 25.50K to 22.04K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 34.31K 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.