Short interest in Encore Capital Group Inc (NASDAQ:ECPG) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.93M to 1.98M. This put 11.83% 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 109.56K shares traded per day, it would take 18.04 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.