Short interest in XORTX Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:XRTX) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 79.64K to 53.65K. This put 3.15% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 40.45K shares traded per day, it would take 1.33 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.