Short interest in BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:BCRX) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 24.38M to 24.81M. This put 12.09% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 2.87M shares traded per day, it would take 8.64 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.