🇩🇰 Most shorted Danish stocks of 2021

In 2021, 54 Denmark companies carried disclosed short positions across 261 trading days (1 Jan 2021 to 31 Dec 2021). The year's highest single reading was ISS A/S at 10.63% on 26 Jan 2021. Figures are disclosed positions only, from official Danish FSA data.

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Short position data for Most shorted Danish stocks of 2021: Danish FSA, compiled by howshorted.com, position date 31 Dec 2021. https://howshorted.com/dk/most-shorted/2021/

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<ref>{{cite web |title=Most shorted Danish stocks of 2021 short position data |url=https://howshorted.com/dk/most-shorted/2021/ |website=HowShorted |publisher=howshorted.com (data: Danish FSA) |date=2021-12-31 |access-date=2026-10-13}}</ref>

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@misc{howshorted-most-shorted-danish-stocks-of-2021-2021-12-31,
  title        = {Most shorted Danish stocks of 2021 short position data},
  author       = {{HowShorted}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://howshorted.com/dk/most-shorted/2021/}},
  note         = {Data: Danish FSA, position date 31 Dec 2021; accessed 2026-10-13},
  year         = {2021}
}

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League table at end of 2021

#	Company	Short % (31 Dec 2021)
1	Ambu A/S	10.00%
2	Zealand Pharma A/S	5.87%
3	Bavarian Nordic A/S	4.57%
4	ISS A/S	4.21%
5	Chr. Hansen Holding A/S	2.06%
6	FLSmidth & Co. A/S	1.82%
7	Novozymes A/S	1.78%
8	Netcompany Group A/S	1.61%
9	SimCorp A/S	1.60%
10	ChemoMetec A/S	1.27%
11	GN Store Nord A/S	1.22%
12	D/S Norden A/S	1.18%
13	NTG Nordic Transport Group A/S	1.10%
14	Bang & Olufsen A/S	1.07%
15	Torm plc	1.06%
16	Pandora A/S	0.89%
17	The Drilling Company of 1972 A/S	0.89%
18	RTX A/S	0.59%
19	Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S	0.50%
20	Matas A/S	0.49%
21	Rockwool A/S	0.41%
22	Bioporto A/S	0.31%
23	Carlsberg A/S	0.30%
24	Jyske Bank A/S	0.30%
25	CBrain A/S	0.29%

Top 25 of 34 companies with disclosed positions on 31 Dec 2021.

Biggest rises of 2021

Zealand Pharma A/S+3.61pp to 5.87%
NTG Nordic Transport Group A/S+1.00pp to 1.10%
Bang & Olufsen A/S+0.87pp to 1.07%
Bavarian Nordic A/S+0.52pp to 4.57%
RTX A/S+0.49pp to 0.59%
D/S Norden A/S+0.39pp to 1.18%
Matas A/S+0.38pp to 0.49%
ChemoMetec A/S+0.33pp to 1.27%
FLSmidth & Co. A/S+0.32pp to 1.82%
Pandora A/S+0.31pp to 0.89%

Biggest falls of 2021

ISS A/S−5.45pp to 4.21%
Jyske Bank A/S−1.97pp to 0.30%
Torm plc−1.52pp to 1.06%
The Drilling Company of 1972 A/S−1.52pp to 0.89%
DFDS A/S−0.73pp to 0.20%
NKT A/S−0.69pp to 0.21%
Tryg A/S−0.68pp to 0.29%
Rockwool A/S−0.49pp to 0.41%
Novozymes A/S−0.37pp to 1.78%
Topdanmark A/S−0.27pp to 0.20%

Changes compare each company's disclosed level at the end of 2021 with its last disclosed level of 2020; 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.