Australian short selling: week 52, 2025

From 22 Dec 2025 to 24 Dec 2025, 707 Australia companies had disclosed short positions across 3 publication days. Changes are percentage points (pp) of units on issue, between each company's last figure before the week and its last figure of the week, from official ASIC data.

Biggest rises

Company	Start	End	Change (pp)
ALPHA HPA LTD	3.13%	4.28%	+1.15
TREASURY CORPORATION 2.25% LN 15-SEP-33	0.73%	1.46%	+0.73
PINNACLE INVESTMENT	3.95%	4.62%	+0.67
HMC CAPITAL LIMITED	6.57%	7.11%	+0.54
ILUKA RESOURCES	6.85%	7.37%	+0.52
PWR HOLDINGS LIMITED	11.33%	11.84%	+0.51
DRONESHIELD LIMITED	10.04%	10.54%	+0.50
BETA XMET ETF UNITS	0.16%	0.61%	+0.45
GBLX ASX200 H DIV ETF UNITS	0.02%	0.46%	+0.44
WOODSIDE ENERGY	3.27%	3.68%	+0.41

Biggest falls

Company	Start	End	Change (pp)
GBLX GMTL ETF ETF UNITS	10.01%	0.22%	−9.79
CHAMPION IRON LTD	6.39%	5.17%	−1.22
ELEVATE URANIUM LTD	1.75%	0.60%	−1.15
BOSS ENERGY LTD	21.49%	20.41%	−1.08
PLS GROUP LTD	9.15%	8.44%	−0.71
BAPCOR LIMITED	7.67%	7.04%	−0.63
LIGHT & WONDER INC. CDI 1:1	2.49%	1.88%	−0.61
ADAIRS LIMITED	2.45%	1.92%	−0.53
MAAS GROUP HOLDINGS	2.95%	2.48%	−0.47
LIFE360 INC. CDI 3:1 FOR. EXEMPT	1.72%	1.28%	−0.44

New disclosures

No companies entered the dataset this week.

Left the dataset

Last published by the ASIC this week, and in no publication since: the figure shown is the one each carried in that final publication. Leaving usually means the position fell below the disclosure threshold, not that shorting stopped entirely.

TREASURY CORPORATION 2.25% LN 15-SEP-33, last figure 1.46% on 24 Dec 2025
GBLX ASX200 H DIV ETF UNITS, last figure 0.46% on 24 Dec 2025
L1 GLOBAL LONG SHORT, last figure 0.02% on 24 Dec 2025
HAWTHORN RESOURCES, last figure 0.00% on 24 Dec 2025
MEDADVISOR LIMITED, last figure 0.00% on 24 Dec 2025

Most shorted at week end

Full table: most shorted Australian stocks.