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Dutch short selling: week 34, 2025

From 18 Aug 2025 to 22 Aug 2025, 29 Netherlands companies had disclosed short positions across 5 publication days. Changes are percentage points (pp) of issued share capital, between each company's last figure before the week and its last figure of the week, from official AFM data.

Biggest rises

CompanyStartEndChange (pp)
Alfen N.V.6.53%7.51%+0.98
BE Semiconductor Industries N.V.3.76%4.36%+0.60
PostNL N.V.2.55%3.06%+0.51
OCI N.V.0.76%1.19%+0.43
Lakefront Biotherapeutics NV2.46%2.86%+0.40
IMCD N.V.3.30%3.62%+0.32
Aalberts N.V.0.50%0.62%+0.12
Akzo Nobel N.V.3.00%3.09%+0.09
Avantium N.V.2.19%2.28%+0.09
Fugro N.V.3.72%3.74%+0.02

Biggest falls

CompanyStartEndChange (pp)
Pharming Group N.V.6.24%4.62%−1.62
AMG Critical Materials N.V.1.32%0.77%−0.55
Brunel International N.V.2.07%1.53%−0.54
Signify N.V.3.81%3.30%−0.51
Koninklijke KPN N.V.0.78%0.69%−0.09
Ebusco Holding N.V.0.70%0.68%−0.02
Havas N.V.2.31%2.30%−0.01
Wereldhave N.V.0.80%0.79%−0.01
Randstad N.V.0.70%0.69%−0.01

New disclosures

No companies entered the dataset this week.

Most shorted at week end

  1. Alfen N.V. , 7.51%
  2. Basic-Fit N.V. , 5.81%
  3. Pharming Group N.V. , 4.62%
  4. BE Semiconductor Industries N.V. , 4.36%
  5. Fugro N.V. , 3.74%

Full table: most shorted Dutch stocks.