Short interest in XORTX Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:XRTX) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 2.66K to 92.93K. This put 2.95% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 574.74K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.