Short interest in Galapagos NV (NASDAQ:GLPG) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 1.52M to 1.42M. This put 2.89% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 187.24K shares traded per day, it would take 7.6 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.