Short Interest Jumps 11.6% For NKTR
December 12, 2018 at 14:03 PM EST
The most recent short interest data has been released for the 11/30/2018 settlement date, which shows a 2,018,150 share increase in total short interest for Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR), to 19,400,014, an increase of 11.61% since 11/15/2018. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that we here at Dividend Channel find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares traded..