Short interest in Viking Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:VKTX) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 17.70M to 17.14M. This put 20.82% 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 3.78M shares traded per day, it would take 4.53 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.