Short interest in Gilead Sciences Inc (NASDAQ:GILD) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 16.48M to 17.74M. This put 1.43% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 5.27M shares traded per day, it would take 3.37 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.