Short interest in Avenue Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:ATXI) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 80.55K to 154.92K. This put 7.54% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.92M 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.