Short interest in BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:BCRX) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 18.49M to 19.36M. This put 9.42% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.75M shares traded per day, it would take 11.08 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.