Short interest in Live Oak Bancshares Inc (NYSE:LOB) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.05M to 1.22M. This put 4.32% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 204.32K shares traded per day, it would take 5.98 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.