Short interest in Ameris Bancorp (NYSE:ABCB) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 881.41K to 699.84K. This put 1.47% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 342.41K shares traded per day, it would take 2.04 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.