Short interest in Independence Realty Trust Inc (NYSE:IRT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 23.73M to 27.12M. This put 17.44% 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 1.74M shares traded per day, it would take 15.62 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.