Short interest in Independence Realty Trust Inc (NYSE:IRT) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 22.35M to 21.92M. This put 14.1% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.66M shares traded per day, it would take 13.23 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.