🇦🇺 Short selling in Australia, Q1 2026

From 2 Jan 2026 to 31 Mar 2026, 904 Australia companies carried disclosed short positions. The quarter's highest single reading was BOSS ENERGY LTD at 19.70% on 2 Jan 2026. 23 companies appeared in the data for the first time. 71 left it. Figures are disclosed positions from official ASIC data.

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Plain

Short position data for Short selling in Australia, Q1 2026: ASIC, compiled by howshorted.com, trade date 31 Mar 2026. https://howshorted.com/au/review/2026-q1/

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

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

Biggest rises of the quarter

MCMILLAN SHAKESPEARE+5.80pp to 9.01%
ELEVRA LITHIUM LTD+5.46pp to 5.92%
ZIP CO LTD..+5.29pp to 10.10%
CAR GROUP LIMITED+5.19pp to 6.83%
CREDIT CORP GROUP+4.19pp to 5.29%

Biggest falls of the quarter

BOSS ENERGY LTD−7.73pp to 11.97%
KAROON ENERGY LTD−4.43pp to 4.93%
PALADIN ENERGY LTD−4.24pp to 8.73%
PWR HOLDINGS LIMITED−2.85pp to 9.08%
STRIKE ENERGY LTD−2.83pp to 0.63%

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.