Short interest in Gabelli Equity Trust Inc (NYSE:GAB) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 29.13K to 159.59K. This put 0.05% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 438.21K 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.