Voya International High Dividend Equity Income Fund (IID) Short Interest Ratio & Short Volume

Short interest is the volume of Voya International High Dividend Equity Income Fund shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. As of March 15th, traders have sold 3,400 shares of IID short. Learn More on Voya International High Dividend Equity Income Fund's current short interest.

Voya International High Dividend Equity Income Fund saw a drop in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,400 shares, a drop of 33.3% from the previous total of 5,100 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.

Here is how the short interest of companies in the sector of "finance" compare to Voya International High Dividend Equity Income Fund: AGM Group Holdings Inc. (0.05%), Bain Capital Specialty Finance, Inc. (0.19%), Banco Macro S.A. (1.52%), BlackRock TCP Capital Corp. (1.44%), Burford Capital Limited (0.58%), Grupo Financiero Galicia S.A. (2.52%), Intercorp Financial Services Inc. (0.47%), Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A. (0.43%), Monroe Capital Co. (0.27%), Northeast Bank (1.10%),

As of the most recent reporting period, the following stocks had the largest short interest positions: Aon plc ($5.63 billion), Charter Communications, Inc. ($5.41 billion), Analog Devices, Inc. ($5.32 billion), Baidu, Inc. ($4.45 billion), Snap Inc. ($3.86 billion), Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. ($3.30 billion), Airbnb, Inc. ($2.82 billion), Bilibili Inc. ($2.34 billion), GameStop Corp. ($2.24 billion), and Expedia Group, Inc. ($2.21 billion). View all of the most shorted stocks.

Short selling IID is an investing strategy that aims to generate trading profit from Voya International High Dividend Equity Income Fund 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 Voya International High Dividend Equity Income Fund occurs when it has a large amount of short interest and its stock increases in price. This forces short sellers to cover their short interest positions by buying actual shares of IID, 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 IID, twice per month. The most recent reporting period available is March, 15 2021.