Short interest in AXT Inc (NASDAQ:AXTI) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 622.12K to 656.69K. This put 1.56% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 349.06K shares traded per day, it would take 1.88 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.