🇦🇺 Short selling in Australia, Q4 2016

From 3 Oct 2016 to 30 Dec 2016, 600 Australia companies carried disclosed short positions. The quarter's highest single reading was MYER HOLDINGS LTD at 17.67% on 26 Oct 2016. 35 companies appeared in the data for the first time. 29 left it. Figures are disclosed positions from official ASIC data.

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Short position data for Short selling in Australia, Q4 2016: ASIC, compiled by howshorted.com, trade date 30 Dec 2016. https://howshorted.com/au/review/2016-q4/

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@misc{howshorted-short-selling-in-australia-q4-2016-2016-12-30,
  title        = {Short selling in Australia, Q4 2016 short position data},
  author       = {{HowShorted}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://howshorted.com/au/review/2016-q4/}},
  note         = {Data: ASIC, trade date 30 Dec 2016; accessed 2026-10-13},
  year         = {2016}
}

Biggest rises of the quarter

ACONEX LIMITED+10.06pp to 16.05%
VOCUS GROUP LTD+7.52pp to 9.23%
MAYNE PHARMA LTD+6.45pp to 7.24%
ISENTIA GROUP LTD+5.82pp to 7.81%
NEXTDC LIMITED+5.66pp to 9.19%

Biggest falls of the quarter

COVER-MORE GRP LTD−9.08pp to 1.79%
ALUMINA LIMITED−3.12pp to 5.56%
WESTGOLD RESOURCES.−2.67pp to 2.78%
UGL LIMITED−2.57pp to 0.05%
ORICA LIMITED−2.54pp to 5.46%

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.