Short interest in Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:LXRX) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 26.14M to 26.21M. This put 11.13% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 1.91M shares traded per day, it would take 13.74 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.