Short interest in Blackrock Income Trust Inc (NYSE:BKT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 43.99K to 49.40K. This put 0.33% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 74.34K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.