Capital Bank Financial Stock Sees Short Interest Make 559% Move

The most recent short interest data has been released for the 08/31/2017 settlement date, which shows a 2,289,182 share increase in total short interest for Capital Bank Financial Corp (CBF), to 2,698,670, an increase of 559.04% since 08/15/2017. 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..