Australian short positions by sector

Disclosed short positions in Australia grouped by our own coarse sector buckets, as of 7 Oct 2026. Averages are across the companies we have classified, 391 of 682 in this market's dataset; the rest are smaller names awaiting classification.

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Plain

Short position data for Australian stocks by sector: ASIC, compiled by howshorted.com, trade date 7 Oct 2026. https://howshorted.com/au/sectors/

Wikipedia

<ref>{{cite web |title=Australian stocks by sector short position data |url=https://howshorted.com/au/sectors/ |website=HowShorted |publisher=howshorted.com (data: ASIC) |date=2026-10-07 |access-date=2026-10-13}}</ref>

BibTeX

@misc{howshorted-australian-stocks-by-sector-2026-10-07,
  title        = {Australian stocks by sector short position data},
  author       = {{HowShorted}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://howshorted.com/au/sectors/}},
  note         = {Data: ASIC, trade date 7 Oct 2026; accessed 2026-10-13},
  year         = {2026}
}

Sector	Companies	Average short %	Highest	Most shorted
Consumer goods	12	4.61%	10.58%	TREASURY WINE ESTATE
Consumer services	13	4.10%	11.85%	DOMINO PIZZA ENTERPR
Financials	33	3.40%	12.75%	ZIP CO LTD..
Consumer retail	14	3.36%	8.70%	ENDEAVOUR
Technology	22	3.33%	11.17%	WISETECH GLOBAL LTD
Industrials	17	3.05%	15.06%	DRONESHIELD LIMITED
Healthcare	38	2.68%	11.12%	4DMEDICAL LIMITED
Real estate	18	2.31%	9.34%	LENDLEASE GROUP
Energy	43	2.12%	13.03%	BOSS ENERGY LTD
Media & telecom	7	1.72%	5.47%	NINE ENTERTAINMENT
Materials	173	1.47%	14.92%	LOTUS RESOURCES LTD
Utilities	1	0.33%	0.33%	CLEAN TEQ WATER

About these sectors

Buckets are our own editorial classification, deliberately coarse, and not the licensed GICS or ICB schemes. Companies we have not yet classified are excluded from sector averages but still appear in the full league table and A–Z directory. Spotted a company in the wrong bucket? See the about page for how to reach us.