Short Interest In AmTrust Financial Services Moves 16% Higher

The most recent short interest data has been released for the 03/15/2017 settlement date, which shows a 1,118,535 share increase in total short interest for AmTrust Financial Services Inc (AFSI), to 8,126,441, an increase of 15.96% since 02/28/2017. 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..