Short interest in Anavex Life Sciences Corp (NASDAQ:AVXL) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 18.81M to 19.69M. This put 23.96% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.58M shares traded per day, it would take 12.43 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.