Short interest in Mercury General Corp (NYSE:MCY) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 779.87K to 803.03K. This put 3.83% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 219.99K shares traded per day, it would take 3.65 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.