Short interest in United Bankshares Inc (NASDAQ:UBSI) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 2.25M to 2.21M. This put 2.21% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 396.14K shares traded per day, it would take 5.57 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.