Short interest in First Guaranty Bancshares Inc (NASDAQ:FGBI) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 9.71K to 13.24K. This put 0.26% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 11.02K shares traded per day, it would take 1.2 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.