Short interest in Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund (NYSE:JPC) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.69M to 2.00M. This put 0.63% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 981.44K shares traded per day, it would take 2.04 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.