Short interest in Prospect Capital Corp (NASDAQ:PSEC) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 15.97M to 16.20M. This put 5.08% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 3.66M shares traded per day, it would take 4.43 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.