Short interest in Westamerica Bancorp (NASDAQ:WABC) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 243.03K to 175.90K. This put 0.97% 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 116.78K shares traded per day, it would take 1.51 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.