Short Interest Jumps 27.5% For HCP
June 12, 2017 at 13:18 PM EDT
The most recent short interest data has been released for the 05/31/2017 settlement date, which shows a 3,215,594 share increase in total short interest for HCP Inc (HCP), to 14,923,619, an increase of 27.46% since 05/15/2017. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that we here at Dividend Channel find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares traded..