Short Interest In First Bancorp Declines 10.7%
August 25, 2016 at 15:51 PM EDT
The most recent short interest data has been released for the 08/15/2016 settlement date, which shows a 280,811 share decrease in total short interest for First Bancorp (FBP), to 2,338,066, a decrease of 10.72% since 07/29/2016. 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..