Australian short-selling history
The episodes people search for by name, told from the ASIC's own published figures rather than from memory: what the short position was, when it peaked, and what the public record says happened around it. Every number is computed from the same data as the company pages. Nothing here is investment advice, and none of it predicts anything.
- PLS Group: the largest short position on the ASX, 2022 to 2025
ASIC's daily reports through the lithium downturn, when the Pilgangoora producer carried the largest reported short position of any company on the Australian market.
Peak 22.50% on 8 Aug 2024 · 4 Jan 2022 to 31 Dec 2025
- Core Lithium: the short position around the Finniss suspension
ASIC's daily reports through 2023 and 2024, when a small Northern Territory lithium producer suspended mining and the reported short position peaked and then unwound.
Peak 13.83% on 10 Jan 2024 · 3 Jan 2023 to 30 Jun 2025
- Flight Centre: the pandemic in the short data, 2019 to 2021
ASIC's daily reports through the closure of Australia's international border in March 2020, the equity raising that followed and the two years after it.
Peak 10.64% on 21 May 2021 · 3 Jun 2019 to 30 Jun 2021
- Liontown: the short position through the Albemarle approach and first production
ASIC's daily aggregate for the lithium developer as Albemarle proposed a takeover in 2023 and withdrew it, and as Kathleen Valley reached first production in 2024.
Peak 12.11% on 14 Aug 2024 · 3 Jan 2023 to 31 Dec 2024