Short interest in National Healthcare Corp (AMEX:NHC) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 394.80K to 411.02K. This put 3.63% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 39.32K shares traded per day, it would take 10.45 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.