Short interest in FIRST TRUST HIGH YIELD OPPORTUNITIES 2027 TERM FUND (NYSE:FTHY) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 16.31K to 19.90K. This put 0.08% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for FIRST TRUST HIGH YIELD gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of FIRST TRUST HIGH YIELD's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 155.19K 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.