Short interest in National Health Investors Inc (NYSE:NHI) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.45M to 2.22M. This put 6.76% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 217.32K shares traded per day, it would take 10.24 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.