Short interest in Essent Group Ltd (NYSE:ESNT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.50M to 1.84M. This put 2.35% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 898.57K shares traded per day, it would take 2.05 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.