Short interest in Cohen & Steers REIT and Preferred Income Fund Inc (NYSE:RNP) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 72.05K to 155.37K. This put 0.33% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Cohen & Steers REIT gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Cohen & Steers REIT's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 96.65K shares traded per day, it would take 1.61 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.