Short interest in NovaBay Pharmaceuticals Inc (AMEX:NBY) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 17.89K to 764.28K. This put 15.65% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.71M 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.