Short interest in National Healthcare Corp (AMEX:NHC) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 365.83K to 349.08K. This put 3.08% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 40.13K shares traded per day, it would take 8.7 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.