Short interest in First Financial Bancorp (NASDAQ:FFBC) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.64M to 1.71M. This put 2.47% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 484.58K shares traded per day, it would take 3.52 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.