Short interest in Northwest Bancshares Inc (NASDAQ:NWBI) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 2.40M to 2.45M. This put 2.62% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 551.33K shares traded per day, it would take 4.45 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.