Short interest in First Bancorp (NASDAQ:FBNC) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 918.52K to 829.19K. This put 2.43% 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 194.97K shares traded per day, it would take 4.25 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.