Short interest in Meritage Homes Corp (NYSE:MTH) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.20M to 1.32M. This put 5.25% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 455.12K shares traded per day, it would take 2.91 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.