Short interest in 89bio Inc (NASDAQ:ETNB) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 5.52M to 5.88M. This put 6.25% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for 89bio gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of 89bio's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 711.27K shares traded per day, it would take 8.26 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.