🇦🇺 Short selling in Australia, Q3 2016

From 1 Jul 2016 to 30 Sep 2016, 579 Australia companies carried disclosed short positions. The quarter's highest single reading was NEWS CORP.. A NON-VOTING CDI 1:1 at 46.28% on 1 Sep 2016. 42 companies appeared in the data for the first time. 22 left it. Figures are disclosed positions from official ASIC data.

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Short position data for Short selling in Australia, Q3 2016: ASIC, compiled by howshorted.com, trade date 30 Sep 2016. https://howshorted.com/au/review/2016-q3/

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@misc{howshorted-short-selling-in-australia-q3-2016-2016-09-30,
  title        = {Short selling in Australia, Q3 2016 short position data},
  author       = {{HowShorted}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://howshorted.com/au/review/2016-q3/}},
  note         = {Data: ASIC, trade date 30 Sep 2016; accessed 2026-10-13},
  year         = {2016}
}

Biggest rises of the quarter

BLACKMORES LIMITED+4.77pp to 8.56%
WESTERN AREAS LTD+4.50pp to 13.10%
ACONEX LIMITED+4.46pp to 5.45%
RESOLUTE MINING+3.99pp to 4.16%
GOLD ROAD RES LTD+3.99pp to 6.05%

Biggest falls of the quarter

ASALEO CARE LIMITED−5.35pp to 1.03%
DSHE HOLDINGS LTD−5.08pp to 1.92%
ISENTIA GROUP LTD−4.11pp to 2.68%
METCASH LIMITED−3.57pp to 11.66%
SELECT HARVESTS−3.50pp to 3.04%

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.