🇦🇺 Short selling in Australia, Q1 2021

From 4 Jan 2021 to 31 Mar 2021, 963 Australia companies carried disclosed short positions. The quarter's highest single reading was WEBBEDS GROUP at 15.08% on 12 Jan 2021. 65 companies appeared in the data for the first time. 38 left it. Figures are disclosed positions from official ASIC data.

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Short position data for Short selling in Australia, Q1 2021: ASIC, compiled by howshorted.com, trade date 31 Mar 2021. https://howshorted.com/au/review/2021-q1/

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@misc{howshorted-short-selling-in-australia-q1-2021-2021-03-31,
  title        = {Short selling in Australia, Q1 2021 short position data},
  author       = {{HowShorted}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://howshorted.com/au/review/2021-q1/}},
  note         = {Data: ASIC, trade date 31 Mar 2021; accessed 2026-10-13},
  year         = {2021}
}

Biggest rises of the quarter

POLYNOVO LIMITED+3.08pp to 5.50%
TEMPLE & WEBSTER LTD+2.94pp to 6.10%
RESOLUTE MINING+2.80pp to 7.89%
MEGAPORT LIMITED+2.61pp to 5.92%
TYRO PAYMENTS+2.50pp to 3.82%

Biggest falls of the quarter

MYER HOLDINGS LTD−6.74pp to 1.26%
FREEDOM FOOD LTD−5.86pp to 1.08%
COLLECTION HOUSE−4.53pp to 0.18%
SPEEDCAST INT LTD−4.42pp to 4.85%
WESTERN AREAS LTD−4.41pp to 3.05%

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.