Short interest in Hercules Capital Inc (NYSE:HTGC) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 4.95M to 5.48M. This put 3.33% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 979.33K shares traded per day, it would take 5.6 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.