Short interest in Opthea Ltd (NASDAQ:OPT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 66.42K to 141.48K. This put 0.12% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 26.58K shares traded per day, it would take 5.32 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.