Short interest in Washington Trust Bancorp Inc (NASDAQ:WASH) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 924.44K to 980.67K. This put 5.15% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 222.96K 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.