Short interest in Anavex Life Sciences Corp (NASDAQ:AVXL) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 18.95M to 19.01M. This put 21.35% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 835.32K shares traded per day, it would take 22.76 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.