Short interest in Medifast Inc (NYSE:MED) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.60M to 1.62M. This put 22.52% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 198.13K shares traded per day, it would take 8.18 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.