Short interest in Easterly Government Properties Inc (NYSE:DEA) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 5.24M to 5.40M. This put 7.74% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.07M shares traded per day, it would take 5.05 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.