Short interest in Ellington Credit Co (NYSE:EARN) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 309.75K to 423.15K. This put 2.14% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 261.64K shares traded per day, it would take 1.62 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.