Short interest in Annaly Capital Management Inc (NYSE:NLY) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 19.56M to 18.56M. This put 3.69% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 6.75M shares traded per day, it would take 2.75 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.