Short interest in Unitil Corp (NYSE:UTL) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 205.83K to 224.53K. This put 1.74% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 51.06K shares traded per day, it would take 4.4 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.