Short interest in Heartland Financial USA Inc (NASDAQ:HTLF) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 690.25K to 986.10K. This put 2.72% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 161.78K shares traded per day, it would take 6.1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.