Short interest in HireQuest Inc (NASDAQ:HQI) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 264.67K to 268.21K. This put 3.36% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 18.70K shares traded per day, it would take 14.34 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.