Short interest in Western Asset Mortgage Defined Opportunity Fund Inc (NYSE:DMO) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 195.91K to 205.28K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 57.44K shares traded per day, it would take 3.57 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.