Short interest in BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:BCRX) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 17.01M to 17.31M. This put 8.42% 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 2.44M shares traded per day, it would take 7.09 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.