Short interest in Benitec Biopharma Inc (NASDAQ:BNTC) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 38.17K to 56.89K. This put 0.72% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 34.17K shares traded per day, it would take 1.67 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.