DWS Municipal Income Trust Short Interest Ratio and Short Volume

Short interest is the volume of DWS Municipal Income Trust shares that have been sold short but have not yet been covered or closed out. As of March 15th, traders have sold 4,300 shares of KTF short.

DWS Municipal Income Trust saw a decrease in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 4,300 shares, a decrease of 82.4% from the previous total of 24,500 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.

0.00% of DWS Municipal Income Trust's shares are currently sold short. Here is how the short interest of companies in the industry of "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" compare to DWS Municipal Income Trust: Royce Value Trust Inc. (0.00%), The Gabelli Equity Trust Inc. (0.00%), Tri-Continental Co. (0.00%), Liberty All-Star Equity Fund (0.00%), Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Co. (0.00%), Boulder Growth & Income Fund, Inc. (0.00%), Nuveen Nasdaq 100 Dynamic Overwrite Fund (0.00%), Cornerstone Strategic Value Fund, Inc. (0.00%), Aberdeen Asia-Pacific Income Fund, Inc. (0.00%), and AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (0.00%).

As of the most recent reporting period, the following stocks had the largest short interest positions: Aon plc ($5.64 billion), Analog Devices, Inc. ($5.59 billion), Charter Communications, Inc. ($5.47 billion), ViacomCBS Inc. ($4.95 billion), Baidu, Inc. ($3.51 billion), Snap Inc. ($3.18 billion), Airbnb, Inc. ($2.38 billion), The Kroger Co. ($2.28 billion), Expedia Group, Inc. ($2.24 billion), and Bilibili Inc. ($2.06 billion). View all of the most shorted stocks.

Short selling KTF is an investing strategy that aims to generate trading profit from DWS Municipal Income Trust as its price is falling. DWS Municipal Income Trust's stock is trading up $0.03 today. To short DWS Municipal Income Trust 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 DWS Municipal Income Trust 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 DWS Municipal Income Trust 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 KTF, 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 KTF, twice per month. The most recent reporting period available is March, 15 2021.