Short interest in Cara Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:CARA) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 842.93K to 1.46M. This put 3.09% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Cara Therapeutics gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Cara Therapeutics's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 268.12K shares traded per day, it would take 5.44 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.