🇦🇺 Short selling in Australia, Q1 2018

From 2 Jan 2018 to 29 Mar 2018, 722 Australia companies carried disclosed short positions. The quarter's highest single reading was SYRAH RESOURCES at 22.24% on 5 Mar 2018. 41 companies appeared in the data for the first time. 39 left it. Figures are disclosed positions from official ASIC data.

← Q4 2017 Q2 2018 →

Cite this page

Plain

Short position data for Short selling in Australia, Q1 2018: ASIC, compiled by howshorted.com, trade date 29 Mar 2018. https://howshorted.com/au/review/2018-q1/

Wikipedia

<ref>{{cite web |title=Short selling in Australia, Q1 2018 short position data |url=https://howshorted.com/au/review/2018-q1/ |website=HowShorted |publisher=howshorted.com (data: ASIC) |date=2018-03-29 |access-date=2026-10-13}}</ref>

BibTeX

@misc{howshorted-short-selling-in-australia-q1-2018-2018-03-29,
  title        = {Short selling in Australia, Q1 2018 short position data},
  author       = {{HowShorted}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://howshorted.com/au/review/2018-q1/}},
  note         = {Data: ASIC, trade date 29 Mar 2018; accessed 2026-10-13},
  year         = {2018}
}

Biggest rises of the quarter

GALAXY RESOURCES+7.32pp to 14.77%
NANOSONICS LIMITED+6.24pp to 11.29%
IPH LIMITED+5.38pp to 5.79%
MACQ ATLAS ROADS GRP ORDINARY STAPLED+4.79pp to 4.97%
METALS X LIMITED+4.65pp to 5.35%

Biggest falls of the quarter

IGO LIMITED−6.08pp to 11.68%
WESTERN AREAS LTD−4.42pp to 4.68%
PERSEUS MINING LTD−4.36pp to 1.01%
SIERRA RUTILE−3.65pp to 0.17%
ISENTIA GROUP LTD−3.52pp to 2.76%

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.