Short interest in Westamerica Bancorp (NASDAQ:WABC) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 358.77K to 408.36K. This put 2.26% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 76.99K shares traded per day, it would take 5.3 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.