Short interest in Wintrust Financial Corp (NASDAQ:WTFCP) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 40.88K to 58.62K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 28.55K shares traded per day, it would take 2.05 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.