Short interest in Franklin Universal Trust (NYSE:FT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 19.93K to 35.90K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 42.30K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.