Community Financial (TCFC) Short Interest Ratio & Short Volume

Short interest is the volume of Community Financial shares that have been sold short but have not yet been closed out or covered. As of June 15th, investors have sold 8,200 shares of TCFC short. 0.16% of Community Financial's shares are currently sold short. Learn More on Community Financial's current short interest.

Companies that have a short interest as a percentage of float below 10% indicates positive investor sentiment and few short sellers. Stocks with a short interest percentage above 10% is considered high, suggesting some investors are pessimistic about the stock. Companies with a short interest percentage of 20% or more indicates widespread negative sentiment. 0.16% of Community Financial's floating shares are currently sold short.

Community Financial saw a decrease in short interest in the month of June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 8,200 shares, a decrease of 3.5% from the previous total of 8,500 shares. Changes in short volume can be used to identify positive and negative investor sentiment. Investors that short sell a stock are betting that its price will decline in the future. An increase in short sale volume suggests bearish (negative) sentiment among investors. A decrease on short sale volume suggests bullish (positive) sentiment.

Community Financial currently has issued a total of 5,669,000 shares. Some of Community Financial's outstanding shares are available for trading, while others are subject to various restrictions. The public float, also referred to as floating shares or "the float", are shares that publicly owned, unrestricted and available to trade on the open market. Community Financial currently has a public float of 5,180,000 shares.

0.16% of Community Financial's shares are currently sold short. Here is how the short interest of companies in the sector of "financial services" compare to Community Financial: Peoples Bancorp of North Carolina, Inc. (0.19%), BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund (0.17%), Insight Select Income Fund (0.01%), TLGY Acquisition Co. (0.00%), Vericity, Inc. (0.58%), Ames National Co. (3.66%), First Northwest Bancorp (0.42%), OFS Capital Co. (0.17%), EVe Mobility Acquisition Corp (0.01%), Western New England Bancorp, Inc. (0.21%),

As of the most recent reporting period, the following stocks had the largest short interest positions: T-Mobile US, Inc. ($3.80 billion), Canadian Natural Resources Limited ($3.69 billion), Charter Communications, Inc. ($2.95 billion), Occidental Petroleum Co. ($2.78 billion), Moderna, Inc. ($2.38 billion), Palantir Technologies Inc. ($2.29 billion), T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. ($2.19 billion), Coinbase Global, Inc. ($2.08 billion), Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. ($2.02 billion), and Verisk Analytics, Inc. ($1.96 billion). View all of the most shorted stocks.

Short selling TCFC is an investing strategy that aims to generate trading profit from Community Financial as its price is falling. To short a stock, an investor borrows shares, sells them and buys the shares back on the public market later to return it to the lender. Short sellers are betting that a stock will decline in price. If the stock does drop after selling, the short seller buys it back at a lower price and returns it to the lender. The difference between the sell price and the buy price is the trader's profit.

A short squeeze for Community Financial occurs when it has a large amount of short interest and its stock appreciates in price. This forces short sellers to cover their short interest positions by buying actual shares of TCFC, which in turn drives the price of the stock up even further.

Short interest is typically published by a stock exchange once per month. However, NASDAQ publishes a report for U.S. stocks, including TCFC, twice per month. The most recent reporting period available is June, 15 2023.