Short interest in Encore Capital Group Inc (NASDAQ:ECPG) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 1.48M to 1.46M. This put 8.76% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 140.63K shares traded per day, it would take 10.41 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.