Short interest in Akamai Technologies Inc (NASDAQ:AKAM) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 8.98M to 8.99M. This put 6.94% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.98M shares traded per day, it would take 4.55 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.