Top trades by Australian Sharesight users — August 2025

Welcome to the August 2025 edition of Sharesight’s monthly trading snapshot for Australian investors, where we look at the top 20 trades made by Australian Sharesight users. Below we will look at the top trades overall, plus the top trades in individual stocks, which allows us to observe the broader investment trends by Australian Sharesight users, while also giving us an opportunity to zoom into the most popular stocks and the market-moving news behind them.

Top trades in August 2025

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This month, the top trades were strongly led by Vanguard’s MSCI Index International Shares (ASX: VGS) and Australian Shares (ASX: VAS) ETFs, followed by the iShares S&P 500 (ASX: IVV) ETF. It was an ETF-heavy month overall, with 10 of the top 20 trades belonging to ETFs.

It should be noted that the assets in our trading snapshots are ordered by the number of Sharesight users trading that asset, while the size of the bars indicate the actual trade volume. So while there were more customers trading in VAS, the volume of IVV trades was higher, meaning that while there were fewer people trading in IVV compared to VAS, they made more trades.

Most-traded stocks in August 2025

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This month’s top traded stocks were led by CSL (ASX: CSL), which saw its share price fall off a cliff mid-month following the release of its latest earnings results and demerger plan. The top trades were followed by NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), whose share price remained relatively flat throughout the month.

Let’s look at some of the market-moving news behind some of this month’s top stocks:

CSL (ASX: CSL)

• CSL share price plummets following announcement of over 3,000 job cuts
• Proposes demerger of its Seqirus vaccines operation
• CSL share price could have 40% upside, says leading broker

NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA)

• NVIDIA beats earnings expectations but China uncertainty remains
• NVIDIA’s Chinese rival sees revenue surge 4,300%
• NVIDIA to pay US govt. 15% of Chinese revenue

Pilbara Minerals (ASX: PLS)

• Pilbara share price skyrockets due to Chinese supply disruption and strong results from Pilgangoora operation
• Shares surge further on record FY25 lithium production

BHP (ASX: BHP)

• BHP share price rises despite dividend cut and 26% profit drop
• Heads toward highest valuation since 2021

Telix Pharmaceuticals (ASX: TLX)

• Telix shares could have 80% upside, says leading broker
• Telix share price plunges 20% as FDA raises concerns over novel imaging agent

Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ: PLTR)

• Palantir share price elevates CEO to billionaire status
• Share price hits all-time high

Commonwealth Bank (ASX: CBA)

• CBA’s record profit not enough to justify ‘lofty valuation’, says analyst
• CBA urged to repay wrongly charged low income customers following record profit
• Market cap plummets by AU$15 billion, dragging down the ASX 200 index

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