Short interest in Safe Bulkers Inc (NYSE:SB) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.72M to 1.73M. This put 2.99% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 568.46K shares traded per day, it would take 3.04 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.