Short interest in Wintrust Financial Corp (NASDAQ:WTFC) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 969.55K to 1.31M. This put 2.2% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 560.99K shares traded per day, it would take 2.34 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.