Short interest in Virtus Total Return Fund Inc (NYSE:ZTR) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 119.66K to 197.11K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 240.28K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.