🇦🇺 Short selling in Australia, Q4 2019

From 1 Oct 2019 to 31 Dec 2019, 725 Australia companies carried disclosed short positions. The quarter's highest single reading was KIRKLAND LAKE GOLD CDI1:1FOREXEMPT XTSE at 23.67% on 16 Dec 2019. 41 companies appeared in the data for the first time. 27 left it. Figures are disclosed positions from official ASIC data.

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Plain

Short position data for Short selling in Australia, Q4 2019: ASIC, compiled by howshorted.com, trade date 31 Dec 2019. https://howshorted.com/au/review/2019-q4/

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{howshorted-short-selling-in-australia-q4-2019-2019-12-31,
  title        = {Short selling in Australia, Q4 2019 short position data},
  author       = {{HowShorted}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://howshorted.com/au/review/2019-q4/}},
  note         = {Data: ASIC, trade date 31 Dec 2019; accessed 2026-10-13},
  year         = {2019}
}

Biggest rises of the quarter

KIRKLAND LAKE GOLD CDI1:1FOREXEMPT XTSE+21.22pp to 21.99%
NEARMAP LTD+4.37pp to 12.00%
WEBBEDS GROUP+3.99pp to 10.23%
PERSEUS MINING LTD+3.49pp to 3.65%
MINERAL RESOURCES.+3.11pp to 8.95%

Biggest falls of the quarter

NUFARM LIMITED−6.91pp to 8.38%
KMD BRANDS LIMITED−5.33pp to 0.00%
BAPCOR LIMITED−5.06pp to 0.41%
SARACEN MINERAL−4.24pp to 2.70%
ADAIRS LIMITED−4.00pp to 1.85%

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.