🇦🇺 Short selling in Australia, Q3 2017

From 3 Jul 2017 to 29 Sep 2017, 565 Australia companies carried disclosed short positions. The quarter's highest single reading was WESTERN AREAS LTD at 21.27% on 4 Aug 2017. 19 companies appeared in the data for the first time. 19 left it. Figures are disclosed positions from official ASIC data.

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Short position data for Short selling in Australia, Q3 2017: ASIC, compiled by howshorted.com, trade date 29 Sep 2017. https://howshorted.com/au/review/2017-q3/

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@misc{howshorted-short-selling-in-australia-q3-2017-2017-09-29,
  title        = {Short selling in Australia, Q3 2017 short position data},
  author       = {{HowShorted}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://howshorted.com/au/review/2017-q3/}},
  note         = {Data: ASIC, trade date 29 Sep 2017; accessed 2026-10-13},
  year         = {2017}
}

Biggest rises of the quarter

HEALTHSCOPE LIMITED.+4.26pp to 12.45%
APN OUTDOOR GRP+3.90pp to 10.51%
SPEEDCAST INT LTD+3.56pp to 6.89%
NANOSONICS LIMITED+2.93pp to 3.60%
SELECT HARVESTS+2.84pp to 13.75%

Biggest falls of the quarter

ISENTIA GROUP LTD−5.05pp to 8.34%
OIL SEARCH LTD−4.98pp to 0.95%
ESTIA HEALTH LTD−4.77pp to 2.31%
OREZONE GOLD CORP CDI 1:1−4.65pp to 15.61%
FLIGHT CENTRE TRAVEL−4.50pp to 7.53%

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.