Acusphere (ACUS) Short Interest Ratio & Short Volume

Short interest is the volume of Acusphere shares that have been sold short but have not yet been closed out or covered. As of May 14th, traders have sold 200 shares of ACUS short. Learn More on Acusphere's current short interest.

Here is how the short interest of companies in the industry of "pharmaceutical preparations" compare to Acusphere: Aravive, Inc. (1.81%), Bayer Aktiengesellschaft (0.01%), Context Therapeutics Inc. (0.08%), Grifols, S.A. (2.32%), IMV Inc. (1.31%), LAVA Therapeutics (1.50%), and Mainz Biomed (2.34%).

As of the most recent reporting period, the following stocks had the largest short interest positions: Aon plc ($6.79 billion), Charter Communications, Inc. ($5.98 billion), Analog Devices, Inc. ($5.56 billion), S&P Global Inc. ($5.37 billion), Airbnb, Inc. ($3.72 billion), Nuance Communications, Inc. ($2.87 billion), Snap Inc. ($2.70 billion), Expedia Group, Inc. ($2.27 billion), The Kroger Co. ($2.19 billion), and VMware, Inc. ($2.04 billion). View all of the most shorted stocks.

Short selling ACUS is an investing strategy that aims to generate trading profit from Acusphere 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 Acusphere 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 ACUS, 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 ACUS, twice per month. The most recent reporting period available is May, 14 2021.