Short interest in ARMOUR Residential REIT Inc (NYSE:ARR) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 6.56M to 8.98M. This put 21.52% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 2.48M shares traded per day, it would take 3.62 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.