Casino Guichard-Perrachon: six years of short positions to the 2024 restructuring

What the register showed

France publishes every net short position of 0.5% or more of share capital with the holder's name, and the line on this page is the sum of those disclosures on each day: a floor, because positions between 0.1% and 0.5% are reported to the AMF privately and never appear.

Even on that measure CASINO GUICHARD-PERRACHON was one of the most heavily shorted large companies in France for years. The sum stood at 3.52% on 1 Jan 2018, reached 15.18% on 31 Aug 2018 and stayed above half that level for most of the next four years.

From 2019 to 2024

In May 2019 the group's controlling shareholder, the holding company Rallye, was placed under a safeguard procedure by the Paris commercial court. In 2023 the group agreed a financial restructuring with a consortium of investors led by Daniel Kretinsky, and an accelerated safeguard procedure was opened in October 2023. The restructuring completed in March 2024 and transferred control of the group.

The named positions were reduced through that process. The last two trading days in this window carry its lowest reading, 1.59%, and the final entry is 1.59% on 27 Mar 2024.

Why this record ends here

This site keys companies to their ISIN, which is what regulators publish against. The restructuring issued shares under a new ISIN, so the AMF's later disclosures are recorded on this site as a separate company entry with its own history rather than being spliced onto this one. Joining the two lines would produce a single chart that no published file supports.