Short interest in Cytokinetics Inc (NASDAQ:CYTK) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 17.46M to 17.83M. This put 23.3% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.23M shares traded per day, it would take 14.48 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.