Short interest in Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE:FRT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.51M to 1.54M. This put 2.21% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 600.93K shares traded per day, it would take 2.56 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.