Short interest in AstraZeneca PLC (NYSE:AZN) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 1.33M to 1.53M. This put 0.1% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 2.01M 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.