🇦🇺 Short selling in Australia, Q1 2016

From 4 Jan 2016 to 31 Mar 2016, 566 Australia companies carried disclosed short positions. The quarter's highest single reading was MYER HOLDINGS LTD at 21.01% on 29 Feb 2016. 32 companies appeared in the data for the first time. 26 left it. Figures are disclosed positions from official ASIC data.

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Short position data for Short selling in Australia, Q1 2016: ASIC, compiled by howshorted.com, trade date 31 Mar 2016. https://howshorted.com/au/review/2016-q1/

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@misc{howshorted-short-selling-in-australia-q1-2016-2016-03-31,
  title        = {Short selling in Australia, Q1 2016 short position data},
  author       = {{HowShorted}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://howshorted.com/au/review/2016-q1/}},
  note         = {Data: ASIC, trade date 31 Mar 2016; accessed 2026-10-13},
  year         = {2016}
}

Biggest rises of the quarter

G.U.D. HOLDINGS+5.52pp to 7.58%
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE+5.38pp to 12.06%
WORLEY LIMITED+4.82pp to 14.05%
OIL SEARCH LTD+4.59pp to 7.62%
BELLAMY'S AUSTRALIA+4.37pp to 4.81%

Biggest falls of the quarter

JB HI-FI LIMITED−10.05pp to 9.20%
GREENCROSS LIMITED−8.45pp to 6.12%
MONADELPHOUS GROUP−7.79pp to 11.93%
WESTERN AREAS LTD−6.87pp to 10.98%
UGL LIMITED−6.31pp to 1.40%

Changes compare each company's last figure of the quarter with its first; companies with a single publication day in the quarter are counted but not ranked. Where disclosure thresholds apply the figures are floors, not a census. Nothing here is investment advice.