Themes

ASX Uranium Stocks

Producers restarting, developers financing, and where the bears sit in the nuclear trade.

12 constituents · short positions as of · ASIC data, T+4 delay

Median short

3.37%

across 12 constituents

Most shorted

LOT

13.97% of issued capital

Biggest 4-week riser

BOE

+3.76pp in 4 weeks

Above 5% short

5

of 12 constituents

Theme short interest over time

Weekly average · shaded band is the constituent range

Constituents

ASX Uranium Stocks
CodeShort %Δ 4wΔ 1mDays to cover
LOT13.97%-2.0pp-6.5%9.3
BOE13.12%+3.8pp-1.3%7.6
PDN11.45%+0.5pp-25.4%17.7
DYL8.76%-1.1pp-35.5%14.3
SLX7.85%-0.4pp-15.7%16.9
BMN4.19%-2.3pp-19.9%7.6
NXG2.55%+0.1pp-13.6%6.4
PEN1.53%+0.1pp-17.9%5.2
AGE0.58%+0.2pp-11.4%3.1
EL80.09%-0.1pp-13.5%0.5
AEE0.00%-0.1pp-11.8%—
BKY0.00%-0.0pp+29.6%—

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About this theme

Uranium equities trade on a contract market almost nobody can see. Utilities buy under long-term contracts at undisclosed terms, the published spot price reflects a thin sliver of volume, and the gap between the two decides whether a restart or a greenfield development is financeable. The ASX names in this theme are mostly restarts and developers rather than steady producers, which makes them a sequence of binary events: a ramp-up rate, a permitting decision, a financing package. Short sellers concentrate around exactly those dates, and around the recurring pattern of ramp guidance being revised. The offsetting risk is that uranium sentiment moves as a bloc — a reactor policy shift, a supply disruption at a major mine, or a single utility contracting round can re-rate every name at once, regardless of where each one sits on its own timeline.

Short positions come from official ASIC short position reports (published with a T+4 trading-day delay) joined with daily price and volume data. The chart averages the constituents reporting in each week and shades the range between the least and most shorted of them; a member with no data that week is absent from the average rather than counted as zero.

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