Short interest in Ellington Credit Co (NYSE:EARN) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 776.63K to 844.49K. This put 2.94% 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 560.73K shares traded per day, it would take 1.51 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.