Short interest in Medifast Inc (NYSE:MED) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 2.17M to 2.07M. This put 28.8% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 243.53K shares traded per day, it would take 8.51 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.