Short interest in Viking Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:VKTX) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 14.39M to 13.28M. This put 16.01% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 4.52M shares traded per day, it would take 2.94 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.