Short interest in Viking Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:VKTX) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 16.99M to 18.07M. This put 21.78% 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 3.55M shares traded per day, it would take 5.08 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.