Short interest in Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:IRWD) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 8.57M to 11.22M. This put 13.55% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.75M shares traded per day, it would take 6.42 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.