Short interest in Applied DNA Sciences Inc (NASDAQ:APDN) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 476.99K to 1.77M. This put 3.49% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 2.47M shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.