Short interest in East West Bancorp Inc (NASDAQ:EWBC) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 4.03M to 3.80M. This put 3.11% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 756.79K shares traded per day, it would take 5.03 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.