Top traded Australian and US shares
13 Jan 2022
Wondering what the biggest stocks being traded in the US and Australia are? We take a look at the top companies traded on the Superhero platform.
The top five most traded Australian companies between 1 January 2021 and 30 November 2021 (inclusive) were:
- Zip Co (ASX:Z1P)
- Flight Centre Travel Group (ASX:FLT)
- Fortescue (ASX:FMG)
- Qantas (ASX:QAN)
- Afterpay (ASX: APT)
The top five most traded U.S. listed companies between 1 January 2021 and 30 November 2021 (inclusive) were:
- Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)
- Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)
- Lucid Motors (NASDAQ:LCID)
- Rivian (NASDAQ:RIVN)
- Alibaba (NYSE: BABA)
Travel, electric cars and a BNPL boom: Superhero reveals its most-traded stocks of 2021
Superhero, a share trading and superannuation platform, has released its first annual Year in Trades review, digging into the most-traded assets on its platform in 2021.
With over 150,000 customers, up from 22,000 customers in December 2020, Superhero’s platform sees thousands of trades every day with customers investing across all sectors – from technology and buy now, pay later to resources and retail.
CEO and co-founder of Superhero, John Winters said, “Despite 2021 being yet another challenging year for many, our customers continued to invest with gusto. We saw increased trades not only month-on-month but also week-on-week as Aussies flocked to the market to grow their wealth.
“There was a clear trend across both Australian and U.S. shares that Superhero customers invested in the brands they interacted with regularly. From Qantas and Kogan in Australia to Apple and Tesla in the U.S. – our customers invest in what they are invested in personally.”
On the buy now, pay later battleground, Zip Co (ASX:Z1P) reigned supreme in 2021 as the most-traded Australian stock over rival Afterpay (ASX:APT). The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX:CBA) meanwhile was the most-traded Big Four bank, ahead of rivals Westpac (ASX:WBC), ANZ (ASX:ANZ) and NAB (ASX:NAB).
Lithium battery company Novonix (ASX:NVX) took home the title of the hottest Australian tech stock among Superhero investors, and is soon to enter the ASX 200 index in December. Fortescue (ASX:FMG), Pilbara Minerals (ASX:PLS) and Vulcan Energy (ASX:VUL) not only ranked as the most-traded resource companies (in that order), but all cracked the top 10 Australian shares overall.
Due to the recent holiday season, Kogan (ASX:KGN) was named the most-traded Australian retail stock on Superhero in 2021.
Over on Wall Street, tech companies dominated with Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Lucid Motors (NASDAQ:LCID), Rivian (NASDAQ:RIVN) and Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) rounding out the top five most-traded listed companies on Superhero’s platform.
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