Short interest in Heritage Financial Corp (NASDAQ:HFWA) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 520.75K to 556.44K. This put 1.91% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 326.54K shares traded per day, it would take 1.7 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.