Short interest in First Bancorp (NASDAQ:FBNC) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 739.12K to 791.60K. This put 2.32% 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 200.48K shares traded per day, it would take 3.95 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.