Short interest in aTyr Pharma Inc (NASDAQ:ATYR) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 276.52K to 392.48K. This put 0.8% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 476.82K 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.