Short interest in AstraZeneca PLC (NASDAQ:AZN) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 12.69M to 15.10M. This put 0.49% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 4.94M shares traded per day, it would take 3.06 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.