Short interest in Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina Inc (NASDAQ:PEBK) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 64.11K to 80.92K. This put 1.79% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 36.16K shares traded per day, it would take 2.24 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.