🇧🇪 Most shorted Belgian stocks of 2023

In 2023, 23 Belgium companies carried disclosed short positions across 260 trading days (2 Jan 2023 to 29 Dec 2023). The year's highest single reading was SOLVAY at 3.76% on 29 Sep 2023. Figures are disclosed positions only, from official FSMA data.

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Short position data for Most shorted Belgian stocks of 2023: FSMA, compiled by howshorted.com, position date 29 Dec 2023. https://howshorted.com/be/most-shorted/2023/

Wikipedia

<ref>{{cite web |title=Most shorted Belgian stocks of 2023 short position data |url=https://howshorted.com/be/most-shorted/2023/ |website=HowShorted |publisher=howshorted.com (data: FSMA) |date=2023-12-29 |access-date=2026-10-13}}</ref>

BibTeX

@misc{howshorted-most-shorted-belgian-stocks-of-2023-2023-12-29,
  title        = {Most shorted Belgian stocks of 2023 short position data},
  author       = {{HowShorted}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://howshorted.com/be/most-shorted/2023/}},
  note         = {Data: FSMA, position date 29 Dec 2023; accessed 2026-10-13},
  year         = {2023}
}

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League table at end of 2023

#	Company	Short % (29 Dec 2023)
1	SOLVAY	2.75%
2	UMICORE	1.57%
3	BIOCARTIS	1.21%
4	BARCO	1.02%
5	SYENSQO	0.77%
6	KINEPOLIS	0.75%
7	COFINIMMO	0.71%
8	AGFA GEVAERT	0.65%
9	SOFINA	0.50%

Biggest rises of 2023

SOLVAY+1.13pp to 2.75%
SYENSQO+0.77pp to 0.77%
UMICORE+0.76pp to 1.57%
COFINIMMO+0.71pp to 0.71%
BARCO+0.44pp to 1.02%
BIOCARTIS+0.08pp to 1.21%

Biggest falls of 2023

AGFA GEVAERT−0.25pp to 0.65%
SOFINA−0.01pp to 0.50%

Changes compare each company's disclosed level at the end of 2023 with its last disclosed level of 2022; a company entering the register during the year rises from 0.00 (undisclosed is not the same as zero short interest). Nothing here is investment advice.