Short interest in Baxter International Inc (NYSE:BAX) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 12.79M to 12.37M. This put 3.17% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 4.78M shares traded per day, it would take 2.59 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.