Short interest in Western Alliance Bancorp (NYSE:WAL) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 5.18M to 5.15M. This put 4.8% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 742.48K shares traded per day, it would take 6.93 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.