🇦🇺 Short selling in Australia, Q1 2020

From 2 Jan 2020 to 31 Mar 2020, 779 Australia companies carried disclosed short positions. The quarter's highest single reading was ANEKA TAMBANG CDI 1:5 at 362.09% on 30 Jan 2020. 43 companies appeared in the data for the first time. 18 left it. Figures are disclosed positions from official ASIC data.

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Plain

Short position data for Short selling in Australia, Q1 2020: ASIC, compiled by howshorted.com, trade date 31 Mar 2020. https://howshorted.com/au/review/2020-q1/

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@misc{howshorted-short-selling-in-australia-q1-2020-2020-03-31,
  title        = {Short selling in Australia, Q1 2020 short position data},
  author       = {{HowShorted}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://howshorted.com/au/review/2020-q1/}},
  note         = {Data: ASIC, trade date 31 Mar 2020; accessed 2026-10-13},
  year         = {2020}
}

Biggest rises of the quarter

NEWS CORP.. A NON-VOTING CDI 1:1+12.29pp to 13.47%
OOH!MEDIA LIMITED+8.43pp to 13.59%
KAROON ENERGY LTD+4.56pp to 4.92%
AFTERPAY LIMITED+3.92pp to 5.21%
FLIGHT CENTRE TRAVEL+3.23pp to 7.17%

Biggest falls of the quarter

KIRKLAND LAKE GOLD CDI1:1FOREXEMPT XTSE−22.73pp to 0.00%
SYRAH RESOURCES−8.80pp to 7.81%
NEXTDC LIMITED−6.89pp to 5.23%
MINERAL RESOURCES.−5.79pp to 3.22%
COSTA GROUP HOLDINGS−5.47pp to 5.61%

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.