Charles River Laboratories

CRL

Charles River Laboratories, Inc., is an American corporation specializing in a variety of preclinical and clinical laboratory services for the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology industries. It also supplies assorted biomedical products and research and development outsourcing services for use in the pharmaceutical industry. According to its website, its customers include leading pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agrochemical, government, and academic organization around the globe.The chairman and chief executive officer is James C. Foster, the son of founder Henry Foster.

Charles River Laboratories has been a target of short sellers for a while. The current short interest of 5.94% is roughly at the average of the last 12 months (6.72%).