Apollo Endosurgery (APEN) Short Interest Ratio & Short Volume

Short interest is the volume of Apollo Endosurgery shares that have been sold short but have not yet been closed out or covered. As of March 15th, traders have sold 462,100 shares of APEN short. Learn More on Apollo Endosurgery's current short interest.

Apollo Endosurgery saw a drop in short interest in March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 462,100 shares, a drop of 25.3% from the previous total of 618,900 shares. Changes in short volume can be used to identify positive and negative investor sentiment. Investors that short sell a stock are betting that its price will decline in the future. An increase in short sale volume suggests bearish (negative) sentiment among investors. A decrease on short sale volume suggests bullish (positive) sentiment.

Here is how the short interest of companies in the industry of "surgical & medical instruments" compare to Apollo Endosurgery: NovoCure Limited (5.45%), LeMaitre Vascular, Inc. (6.27%), Alphatec Holdings, Inc. (12.08%), UFP Technologies, Inc. (13.96%), Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. (9.93%), AtriCure, Inc. (3.23%), Artivion, Inc. (9.07%), Pulse Biosciences, Inc. (18.95%), Paragon 28, Inc. (2.22%), Integra LifeSciences Holdings Co. (5.73%),

As of the most recent reporting period, the following stocks had the largest short interest positions: Canadian Natural Resources Limited ($3.66 billion), Occidental Petroleum Co. ($2.62 billion), Coinbase Global, Inc. ($2.38 billion), T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. ($2.13 billion), Verisk Analytics, Inc. ($2.08 billion), Snowflake Inc. ($1.95 billion), Paramount Global ($1.78 billion), Etsy, Inc. ($1.60 billion), Teck Resources Limited ($1.51 billion), and Voya Financial, Inc. ($1.49 billion). View all of the most shorted stocks.

Short selling APEN is an investing strategy that aims to generate trading profit from Apollo Endosurgery as its price is falling. To short a stock, an investor borrows shares, sells them and buys the shares back on the public market later to return it to the lender. Short sellers are betting that a stock will decline in price. If the stock does drop after selling, the short seller buys it back at a lower price and returns it to the lender. The difference between the sell price and the buy price is the trader's profit.

A short squeeze for Apollo Endosurgery occurs when it has a large amount of short interest and its stock increases in price. This forces short sellers to cover their short interest positions by buying actual shares of APEN, which in turn drives the price of the stock up even further.

Short interest is typically published by a stock exchange once per month. However, NASDAQ publishes a report for U.S. stocks, including APEN, twice per month. The most recent reporting period available is March, 15 2023.