Short interest is the number of shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. Short selling is when a trader sells shares of a company they do not own, with the hope ...

A decreased "days to cover" value could indicate that short sellers are no longer expecting the same decline in stock price they once were, or it could also indicate a long bet elsewhere was closed ...

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