Listing
Total number of listed companies on the main market amounted to 214 at the end of August 2014. Meanwhile, the number of listed companies on Nilex reached 25 at the end of the month.
One company was listed on Nilex this month, with a total capital of US$ 420 thousand (LE 3 million).
Turnover
Total number of trading days in August 2014, amounted to 21 days, with a total value traded of US$ 3,031 million (LE 21,641 million). Value traded of the main market amounted to US$ 2,942 million (LE 21,009 million), of which shares, bonds and funds represented 77.42%, 22.58% and 0%, respectively. Unlisted securities i.e. Over the Counter trading reached US$ 81 million (LE 580 million), which represents 2.68% of total value traded for the month. Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 7 million (LE 52 million) during the month.
This is in comparison to July 2014, when value traded of the main market amounted to US$ 2,283 million (LE 16,304 million), of which shares represented 62.38%, bonds 37.62% and funds 0%. In addition, the OTC trading amounted to US$ 131 million (LE 936 million), i.e. 5.42 % of total trading (on- and off-exchange trading), which reached US$ 2,418 million (LE 17,264 million). Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 3 million (LE 24 million) during the month.
Total volume traded of the main market for this month reached 3,947.80 million securities. Meanwhile, the total volume traded of the OTC market has reached 54.20 million securities. Nilex has recorded a trading volume of 18.15 million securities.
During August 2014, 617,015 transactions were concluded with an average of 29,382 trades per day, as opposed to 337,511 transactions were concluded with an average of 18,751 trades per day, during July 2014.
Indices
EGX 30 index, the official market index, witnessed an increase of 7.03% in August 2014, to close at 9446.83 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 79.33%
Meanwhile, EGX 70 price index witnessed an increase of 5.13% in August 2014, to close at 660.44 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 49.59%
Moreover, EGX 100 price index witnessed an increase of 5.53% in August 2014, to close at 1170.1 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 56.66%.
Moreover, EGX 20 Capped index witnessed an increase of 7.91% in August 2014, to close at 11347.83 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 85.35%.
Additionally, the Dow Jones EGX Egypt Titans 20 index witnessed an increase of 6.71% in August 2014, to close at 1981.18 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 70.94%.
On the other hand, the S&P/EGX ESG index witnessed an increase of 2.99% in August 2014, to close at 1746.31 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 105.14%.
From another perspective, Nile index witnessed an increase of 2.29% in August 2014, to close at 819.27 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 2.58%.
Price Movements of Selected Shares
The ten most active stocks in the main market represented 70.14% of total traded shares' volume and 50.70% of total traded shares' value for this month.
During the month of August, the top five gainers, on the main market, were (in descending order of price change) Suez Canal Bank (74.56%), El Ezz Porcelain (Gemma) (43.79%), El Nasr Transformers (El Maco) (38.11%), Heliopolis Housing (33.86 %) and Egyptians Housing Development & Reconstruction (28.69%)
The top five losers were (in ascending order of price change) Rights Issue of Ismailia Misr Poultry -1 (-77.78%), Rights Issue of Arab Pharmaceuticals-1 (-70.52%), Rights issue of Union National Bank-Egypt-UNB-E-1 (-57.14%), El Obour Real Estate Investment (-15.32%) and Saudi Egyptian Investment & Finance (-13.55%).
Market Capitalization
Total market capitalization of shares in the main market amounted to US$ 73.37 billion (LE 523.88 billion), as of end of August 2014 compared to US$ 70.18 billion (LE 501.06 billion) in July 2014, representing an increase of 4.55%. Meanwhile, Market capitalization for the companies listed on Nilex has reached US$ 151.87 million (LE 1.08 billion) at the end of August 2014.
The bond capitalization recorded US$ 236.03 million (LE 1.69 billion) for corporate bonds and US$ 65.46 billion (LE 467.40 billion) for government bonds at the end of August 2014 (Treasury Bonds according to Primary Dealers System). Meanwhile, the market capitalization of the Public Juristic Entities bonds amounted to US$ 700.27 million (LE 5 billion) at the end of August 2014.
Foreign Participation
In August 2014, foreign investors participated with 13.29% of the value traded of the main market, with a net inflow of portfolio foreign investment totaling US$ 83.92 million (LE 599.23 million).