Short interest in Encompass Health Corp (NYSE:EHC) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.27M to 1.35M. This put 1.52% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 632.43K shares traded per day, it would take 2.14 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.