Listing
Total number of listed companies on the main market amounted to 212 at the end of February 2014. Meanwhile, the number of listed companies on Nilex reached 24 at the end of the month.
No new companies were listed this month.
Turnover
Total number of trading days in February 2014 amounted to 20 days with a total value traded of US$ 3,870.79 million (LE 26,904 million.).
Value traded of the main market amounted to US$3,698.59 million (LE 25,708 million), of which shares, bonds and funds represented 72.02%, 27.98% and 0%, respectively. Unlisted securities i.e. Over the Counter trading reached US$ 154.27 million (LE 1,072 million), which represents 3.99% of total value traded for the month. Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 17.90 million (LE 124.43 million) during the month.
Total number of trading days in January 2014 amounted to 19 days with a total value traded of US$ 2,750.41 million (LE 19,120 million.).
Value traded of the main market amounted to US$ 2,557.36 million (LE 17,778 million), of which shares, bonds and funds represented 80.93%, 19.07% and 0%, respectively. Unlisted securities i.e. Over the Counter trading reached US$ 175.64 million (LE 1,221 million), which represents 6.39% of total value traded for the month. Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 17.26 million (LE 119.961 million) during the month.
Total volume traded of the main market for this month reached 5,589 million securities. Meanwhile, the total volume traded of the OTC market has reached 130.59 million securities. Nilex has recorded a trading volume of 34.01 million securities.
During February 2014, 806,549 transactions were concluded with an average of 40,327 trades per day, as opposed to 643,026 transactions were concluded with an average of 33,843 trades per day, during January 2014
Indices
EGX 30 index, the official market index, witnessed an increase of 9.76% in February 2014 to reach 8,127.44 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 48.06%
Meanwhile, EGX 70 price index witnessed an increase of 11.32% in February 2014 to reach 651.21 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 38.20%
Moreover, EGX 100 price index witnessed an increase of 12.81% in February 2014 to reach 1,119.09 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 40.49 %.
Moreover, EGX 20 Capped index witnessed an increase of 10.77% in February 2014 to reach 9,765.16 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 52.04%.
Additionally, the Dow Jones EGX Egypt Titans 20 index witnessed an increase of 8.05% in February 2014, to close at 1,712.21 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 40.71%.
On the other hand, the S&P/EGX ESG index witnessed an increase of 14.28% in February 2014, to close at 1,422.82 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 58.39%.
Price Movements of Selected Shares
The ten most active stocks in the main market represented 72.94% of total traded shares' volume and 49.45 % of total traded shares' value for this month.
During the month of February, the top five gainers, on the main market, were (in descending order of price change) Golden Coast Company (122.71%), Pioneers Holding (63.03%), Alexandria National Company for Financial Investment (55.13%), Arab Cotton Ginning (41.66%), Marsa Marsa Alam For Tourism Development (36.82%)
The top five losers were (in ascending order of price change) Rights Issue of Medical Packaging Company-1 (-61.90 %), El Nasr for Manufacturing Agricultural Crops (-15.95%) Gulf Canadian Real Estate Investment Co. (Aracemco) (-13.08%), Union National Bank - Egypt " UNB-E (-9.11%), The Arab Dairy Products Co. ARAB DAIRY (-7.73%)
Market Capitalization
Total market capitalization of shares in the main market amounted to US$70.76 (LE 491.85 billion), as of end of February 2014 compared to US$ 64.99 (LE 482.77 billion) in January 2014, representing an increase of 5.98%. Meanwhile, Market capitalization for the companies listed on Nilex has reached US$ 192.60 million (LE 1,338.69 million) at the end of February 2014.
The bond capitalization recorded US$ 630.88 million (LE 4.39 billion) for corporate bonds and US$ 54.91 billion (LE 381.66 billion) for government bonds at the end of February 2014 (Treasury Bonds according to Primary Dealers System). Meanwhile, the market capitalization of the Public Juristic Entities bonds amounted to US$ 719.35 million (LE 5 billion) at the end of February 2014.
Foreign Participation
In February 2014, foreign investors participated with 12.31% of the value traded of the main market, with a net inflow of portfolio foreign investment totaling US$ 949.83 thousand (LE 6.60 million).