Short interest in Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund Ltd (AMEX:ECF) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 7.04K to 8.09K. This put 0.06% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Ellsworth G&I Fund gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Ellsworth G&I Fund's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 47.45K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.