Short interest in Novartis AG (NYSE:NVS) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 4.79M to 4.76M. This put 0.24% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 1.29M shares traded per day, it would take 3.69 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.