Short interest in First Busey Corp (NASDAQ:BUSE) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.55M to 1.59M. This put 2.96% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 195.14K shares traded per day, it would take 8.14 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.