Short interest in First Bancorp (NASDAQ:FBNC) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 896.83K to 721.18K. This put 2.12% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 125.64K shares traded per day, it would take 5.74 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.