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Appen Limited is a global leader in high-quality data for machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). The company works closely with tech companies to improve AI performance, leveraging a global crowd workforce to provide data annotation and model training services. Positioned strongly in the AI market, Appen offers scalable solutions to clients looking to enhance their speech recognition, search technology, and social media algorithms.

Short position

short percentage1.06%
reported shorts2.8M
shares on issue268.524M

Appen (ASX:APX) has 1.06% of its shares on issue reported as short positions as of 5 Oct 2026, or about 2,836,658 shares. Over the past 30 days that figure has risen 0.50 percentage points, and over 90 days it has risen 0.55 percentage points. Its highest recorded short interest was 11.65% in November 2023. APX is classified in the Software & Services industry. All figures come from official ASIC short position reports, published with a four trading-day (T+4) delay.

Price & short interest

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Appen (APX) News

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Kalkine
Neutral
1d ago

Is Appen (ASX:APX) Leaning on China to Rebuild AI Data Trade?

Highlights The data-labelling specialist is getting its growth from a region A sharp share price bounce has revived interest after a rough patch Automation inside big technology firms remains the long-run worry Appen (ASX:APX), the Sydney-based supplier of human-curated training data and evaluation services to artificial intelligence developers, has drawn renewed attention after a sharp rebound in its share price in late September, but the strength of its recovery still depends heavily on a s...

Kalkine
Neutral
2d ago

What Happens at Each Step of an SMSF Pension From Start to Finish?

Highlights An SMSF pension follows a set sequence from condition of release to final payment. Trustees document, value, report and pay, with each stage carrying its own duties. Minimums, commutations and reporting rules decide whether tax outcomes survive. An SMSF pension moves through a fixed sequence: a member meets a condition of release, the trustees document and fund an account-based pension, the starting value is reported to the ATO, minimum payments follow each year, and the pension en...

Kalkine
Negative
3d ago

Are Appen (ASX:APX) Shares Cooling After a Sharp AI Rally?

Highlights Appen shares slipped in the latest session this week after a strong late-September run that lifted them well above their level at the start of the year. Full-year guidance and margin targets remain the benchmark the market is using to judge the turnaround. Appen (ASX:APX) shares eased in the latest session tracked by Stake market data this week, cooling after a sharp rally in late September that pushed the AI training data provider to its strongest levels in months and left the sto...

Kalkine
Neutral
28 Sept

Is Appen (ASX:APX) Hiding a Global Problem?

Highlights AI training data provider returns to underlying profit as its China arm grows rapidly Global division revenue remains well below last year despite work with leading AI labs Full-year revenue and margin guidance reaffirmed as local tech stocks slide Appen (ASX:APX) enters a jittery week for local technology stocks with its China business now generating the majority of group revenue, after a sharp half-year turnaround driven by demand for AI training and evaluation data from Chinese ...

Kalkine
Neutral
24 Sept

What Happens When SMSF Trustees Break the Rules?

Highlights Self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees must act honestly, keep fund assets separate, keep detailed records and follow the trust deed and super law. When rules are broken, the ATO can impose personal administrative penalties, education and rectification directions, or disqualify trustees. Serious breaches can see a fund made non-complying, with its income and much of its value taxed at the highest marginal rate. When trustees of a self-managed super fund (SMSF) break the rules, the...

Kalkine
Neutral
24 Sept

Energy Shock Rattles Tech: Is Appen (ASX:APX) Still an AI Stock to Watch?

Highlights Macro volatility has raised the importance of balance-sheet and operating discipline across the local market. Appen Ltd provides a company-specific window into today's AI-linked shares theme. Key attention points include customer adoption, recurring software demand, data capability and evidence that technology can convert into durable revenue activity. Today's ASX backdrop is being shaped by weaker offshore equities, a sharp bond-market repricing and renewed strength in crude. In t...

Kalkine
Neutral
15 Sept

Why Could Appen (ASX:APX) Face a New AI Test?

Highlights Appen enters a more cautious AI market where enthusiasm around artificial intelligence is being tested by changing global conditions. Oil, bond yields and shifting sector leadership are influencing the broader Australian share market backdrop. Appens role in AI data services keeps execution, customer demand and industry spending at the centre of its market story. Appen (ASX:APX) is entering a market environment where enthusiasm around artificial intelligence is facing a more...

Kalkine
Neutral
15 Sept

What Is Driving Appen (ASX:APX) Today?

Highlights Attention across Australian equities has broadened beyond headline market moves to the underlying drivers of automation and enterprise technology spending. The broader setting remains important. Commodity prices, energy costs, bond yields, currency movements and expectations for Australian monetary policy can all influence For readers tracking ASX AI Stocks, the main issue is how sector demand translates into company-level activity. Attention across Australian equities has broadene...

Kalkine
Neutral
14 Sept

Can Appen’s (ASX:APX) All Ordinaries pricing reset revive this penny stock?

Highlights Appen moved with the technology sector during the latest trading session after its recent reporting update. How current price action meets the operating reset at a lower-priced technology name. Confirmed detail, rather than the surrounding commentary, is the standard this article applies when weighing what the news means for APX. A fresh disclosure from Appen (ASX:APX), a member of the [All Ordinaries], states that appen moved with the technology sector during the latest trading se...

Kalkine
Neutral
14 Sept

Can data quality reshape AI put Appen (ASX:APX) in focus?

Highlights Appen moved with the technology sector in the latest trading session after its recent reporting update. The update also falls within the AI Stocks category, where broader sector conditions can shape how the disclosure is read. How data services and operating discipline shape the artificial-intelligence reset. Appen (ASX:APX) has released a market update stating that Appen moved with the technology sector in the latest trading session after its recent reporting update. This update f...

Kalkine
Neutral
11 Sept

What Is Driving Appen (ASX:APX) as AI Data Demand Grows?

Highlights Appen has restated its full-year revenue range as demand for training and evaluation data stays firm. Work with large language model laboratories is widening across both the global and China arms. A weaker local market has left small-cap technology names exposed to shifting risk appetite. Appen (ASX:APX) came into Friday's session with its full-year revenue range intact, a steadying note for a small-cap technology name in a week when the local sharemarket has been unwinding risk at...

Kalkine
Neutral
11 Sept

What Could Appen Limited (ASX:APX) Mean for ASX Technology Stocks?

Highlights The latest completed ASX session placed Appen Limited and its most recent financial update in current market context. The release is being assessed against product delivery and recurring demand across listed technology. Execution, funding discipline, and transparent disclosure remain central to the interpretation of the latest corporate development. During the latest completed ASX session, Appen Limited (ASX:APX) remained linked with its most recent financial update. That disclosur...

Kalkine
Neutral
11 Sept

Why Is Appen Limited (ASX:APX) in Focus in ASX Smallcap Stocks?

Highlights The latest completed ASX session placed Appen Limited and its most recent financial update in current market context. The release is being assessed against execution, liquidity and funding discipline across smaller ASX businesses. Execution, funding discipline, and transparent disclosure remain central to the interpretation of the latest corporate development. During the latest completed ASX session, Appen Limited (ASX:APX) remained linked with its most recent financial update. Tha...

Kalkine
Positive
10 Sept

Appen (ASX:APX): Can data demand support growth?

Highlights [ASX 300] Appen Limited has placed its latest interim release on data services for artificial intelligence systems into the current public record. The market debate now turns toward execution quality, cash conversion, and financial flexibility. Later disclosures will show whether the latest development changes durable business economics. Appen Limited (ASX:APX) has returned to market attention after its latest interim release on data services for artificial intelligence systems. Th...

Kalkine
Neutral
9 Sept

Appen Refreshes the Technology Delivery View (ASX:APX)

Highlights Appen has placed technology delivery at the centre of current trading focus through its fresh statement. The update directs attention toward customer adoption, recurring revenue and service reliability without removing the need for careful evidence review. Market reading depends on delivery quality, clear reporting and alignment between strategy, funding and operating conditions. Appen (ASX:APX) has drawn attention through its latest available corporate news after reporting a recen...

Kalkine
Neutral
31 Aug

Why is Appen APX drawing fresh AI Stocks attention?

Highlights First-half revenue rose while China revenue roseand underlying earnings improved. The update adds fresh operating context to the AI Stocks segment and shows which business drivers sit behind the headline. The wider sector lens centres on data quality, model deployment, infrastructure demand, recurring service work and the cost of delivering specialist technology services, keeping the article factual and focused on disclosed information. Australian markets are moving through a dense...

Kalkine
Neutral
27 Aug

How Did Appen (ASX:APX) Shift the Technology Stocks Outlook?

Highlights Attention around Appen (ASX:APX) is turning from headline expectations to the operating evidence likely to emerge from its half-year update. Against the the broader market setting, the more useful reading will come from how the business addresses contracted revenue, retention, product delivery, infrastructure needs and margins. The next useful checkpoint for Appen is whether its latest disclosure adds clearer evidence on execution, operating discipline and financial flexibility withi...

Kalkine
Neutral
27 Aug

Why Could Appen (ASX:APX) Reshape the Smallcap Stocks Outlook?

Highlights For Australian equities, Appen (ASX:APX) brings a company-specific lens to a market still sorting through reporting-season signals. The the broader market context matters, but the more useful reading will come from how the business addresses customer traction, project delivery, balance-sheet flexibility and operating proof points. The next useful checkpoint for Appen is whether its latest disclosure adds clearer evidence on execution, operating discipline and financial flexibility wi...

Kalkine
Neutral
27 Aug

Is Appen (ASX:APX) Shaping the Next Penny Stocks Shift?

Highlights Reporting season has put Appen (ASX:APX) back into the Australian market conversation, with the half-year update offering a fresh test of funding runway, milestone delivery and disclosure quality. Within the broader market backdrop, the more useful reading will come from how the business addresses project sequencing, capital needs, commercial proof points and execution. The next useful checkpoint for Appen is whether its latest disclosure adds clearer evidence on execution, operating...

Kalkine
Positive
27 Aug

What Could Put Appen (ASX:APX) Back in the Growth Stocks View?

Highlights Attention around Appen (ASX:APX) is turning from headline expectations to the operating evidence likely to emerge from its half-year update. Against the the broader market setting, the more useful reading will come from how the business addresses customer growth, unit economics, delivery capacity and margin progression. The next useful checkpoint for Appen is whether its latest disclosure adds clearer evidence on execution, operating discipline and financial flexibility within the gr...

Kalkine
Positive
27 Aug

Why Is Appen (ASX:APX) Gaining Fresh Attention in AI Stocks?

Highlights The half-year update places data demand, contract quality and infrastructure intensity at the centre of the company-specific discussion Contract execution and infrastructure utilisation remain key factors shaping the companys near-term progress. The next useful checkpoints sit in execution, disclosure quality and the link between activity and financial discipline Reporting season has put Appen (ASX:APX) back into the Australian market conversation, with the half-year update offerin...

Kalkine
Neutral
25 Aug

Why Is Appen (ASX:APX) Back in AI Focus?

Highlights Appen is scheduled to release half-year accounts later this week, its first detailed update since guidance for the full year was set. The group supplies training data, annotation and human-led model evaluation to the largest developers of machine learning systems. Market attention centres on whether revenue growth is broadening beyond a narrow set of very large customers. AI infrastructure, data processing and enterprise automation are moving on separate business cycles rather than...

Kalkine
Neutral
21 Aug

Can Appen (ASX:APX) Reshape the AI Stocks Outlook?

Highlights Appen is being assessed through commercial adoption, contract conversion and the quality of execution rather than short-term market direction. The ai stocks backdrop makes research intensity and cash discipline especially useful when separating company evidence from sector noise. Upcoming disclosures can clarify whether deployment economics is supporting or constraining the operating story around Appen. Reporting-season volatility has sharpened the divide between narrative and exec...

Kalkine
Neutral
21 Aug

ASX Movers Today: Appen (ASX:APX) in focus as volatility after earnings reshapes AI Stocks

Highlights Reporting season is refocusing the Australian market on earnings quality, guidance and cash conversion. Appen (ASX:APX) is being assessed through an AI stocks lens centred on earnings quality, cash flow, balance-sheet strength and the next verified catalyst. Fresh sector disclosures can reshape expectations when operating evidence differs from the first market reaction. Appen (ASX:APX) is in focus as Australian market participants assess reporting-season signals across the [ASX 200...

Kalkine
Neutral
20 Aug

Appen (ASX:APX): Why does All Ordinaries context matter?

Highlights The coverage gives Appen its own evidence hierarchy: first commercial adoption, then compute intensity, and finally execution risk, with All Ordinaries used only as an external frame. Appen is approached from the quality of execution risk, not from a broad market-direction call. The analysis works backwards from commercial adoption to test what compute intensity is actually saying about the business. That company-first framing keeps the All Ordinaries reference useful without allowin...

Kalkine
Neutral
13 Aug

Appen Limited (ASX:APX) Data Services Support Machine Learning Expansion

Highlights Data annotation services essential for machine learning model development Global customer base provides diversified revenue streams Growth in AI applications drives increasing demand for training data services Appen Limited (ASX:APX) provides data annotation and labeling services critical to machine learning model training across global artificial intelligence projects. The broader market context can also be viewed through the S&P/ASX All Technology Index, which tracks performa...

Kalkine
Neutral
4 Aug

How Appen (ASX:APX) Capitalises on AI Data Demand?

Highlights Appen Limited (ASX:APX) remains in focus as artificial intelligence adoption and operational delivery continue shaping sector attention. Data quality, software capability and commercial execution remain central considerations as Australian companies respond to evolving market conditions. Balance sheet management, strategic discipline and consistent execution continue influencing the broader business outlook. Australia's artificial intelligence stocks landscape remains closely watch...

Kalkine
Neutral
4 Aug

Appen (ASX:APX): Is Revenue Stabilisation the Key Signal?

Highlights Appen's August reporting-season setup puts AI data services at the centre of the immediate market discussion. Australian ai stocks conditions keep Appen sensitive to demand, costs and revenue stabilisation through the reporting cycle. For Appen, the test is whether revenue stabilisation can support execution and financial flexibility through the next cycle. Australian shares enter the session with reporting season sharpening attention on company-specific evidence, while broader rate...

Kalkine
Neutral
3 Aug

Appen (ASX:APX): Can Operating Delivery Change the Story?

Highlights Appen enters the reporting period with customer concentration and cash discipline central to the next company disclosure and the wider market debate. The AI Stocks backdrop is testing customer adoption, infrastructure demand and operating leverage as rates, demand and capital discipline shape market interpretation. A comparison with BrainChip Holdings clarifies differences in scale, operating exposure, funding needs and sensitivity to external conditions. Local equities move into th...

Kalkine
Neutral
20 July

Can Appen (ASX:APX) Pass the ASX 300 AI Credibility Test?

Highlights Appen is drawing renewed attention as data services quality becomes central to the latest AI discussion on the Australian market. The focus has shifted towards contract quality, cash generation and operational execution rather than broad AI enthusiasm. A more selective market environment is encouraging closer scrutiny of companies supporting enterprise AI adoption. Australian equities have opened with a more selective tone as market participants continue balancing global artifi...