Short interest in Veeco Instruments Inc (NASDAQ:VECO) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 4.82M to 4.91M. This put 12.24% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 618.54K shares traded per day, it would take 7.93 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.