Short interest in Amerant Bancorp Inc (NYSE:AMTB) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 837.66K to 867.09K. This put 2.98% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 231.68K shares traded per day, it would take 3.74 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.