Short interest in Virtus AllianzGI Equity & Convertible Income Fund (NYSE:NIE) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 26.03K to 71.05K. This put 0.26% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 102.34K 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.