Short interest in Columbia Banking System Inc (NASDAQ:COLB) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 4.14M to 4.01M. This put 2.15% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.68M shares traded per day, it would take 2.39 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.