Short interest in Editas Medicine Inc (NASDAQ:EDIT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 16.06M to 16.93M. This put 26% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 3.31M shares traded per day, it would take 5.12 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.