Short interest in Putnam Premier Income Trust (NYSE:PPT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 19.01K to 77.19K. This put 0.11% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 175.02K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.