Short interest in Cathay General Bancorp (NASDAQ:CATY) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 2.30M to 2.35M. This put 4.79% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 262.94K shares traded per day, it would take 8.93 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.