Short interest in Atea Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:AVIR) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 2.85M to 2.95M. This put 4.9% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 381.62K shares traded per day, it would take 7.72 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.