Short interest in Western Asset High Yield Defined Opps. (NYSE:HYI) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 16.90K to 12.45K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 52.12K 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.