🇦🇺 Short selling in Australia, Q4 2020

From 1 Oct 2020 to 31 Dec 2020, 864 Australia companies carried disclosed short positions. The quarter's highest single reading was WEBBEDS GROUP at 15.87% on 2 Nov 2020. 79 companies appeared in the data for the first time. 28 left it. Figures are disclosed positions from official ASIC data.

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Short position data for Short selling in Australia, Q4 2020: ASIC, compiled by howshorted.com, trade date 31 Dec 2020. https://howshorted.com/au/review/2020-q4/

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@misc{howshorted-short-selling-in-australia-q4-2020-2020-12-31,
  title        = {Short selling in Australia, Q4 2020 short position data},
  author       = {{HowShorted}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://howshorted.com/au/review/2020-q4/}},
  note         = {Data: ASIC, trade date 31 Dec 2020; accessed 2026-10-13},
  year         = {2020}
}

Biggest rises of the quarter

TASSAL GROUP LIMITED+6.20pp to 11.80%
SERVICE STREAM+4.13pp to 7.04%
WESTERN AREAS LTD+3.94pp to 7.51%
MESOBLAST LIMITED+3.09pp to 9.82%
FLIGHT CENTRE TRAVEL+2.03pp to 8.26%

Biggest falls of the quarter

GALAXY RESOURCES−5.86pp to 2.81%
CORP TRAVEL LIMITED−4.63pp to 1.29%
POLYNOVO LIMITED−4.12pp to 2.42%
HUB24 LTD−4.07pp to 2.00%
FLEXIGROUP LIMITED−3.71pp to 2.38%

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.