Short interest in Lixte Biotechnology Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:LIXT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 18.32K to 447.99K. This put 20.44% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 2.91M shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.