Short interest in Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina Inc (NASDAQ:PEBK) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 72.21K to 68.51K. This put 1.58% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 18.18K shares traded per day, it would take 3.77 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.