Short interest in ESSA Bancorp Inc (NASDAQ:ESSA) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 30.43K to 24.80K. This put 0.34% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 8.67K shares traded per day, it would take 2.86 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.