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At the end of the year 2011 Tadawul All Share Index (TASI) closed at a level of 6,417.73 points compared to 6,620.75 points for the previous year, lost 203.02 points (3.07%). The highest close level for the index (TASI) during the year was 6,788.42 points as on 16th of January.
The total Market Capitalization at the end of the year 2011 reached SR 1,270.84 billion (US$ 338.89 billion), decreasing by 4.12% as compared to the end of the previous year.
The total Value of Shares Traded for the year 2011 reached SR 1,098.84 billion (US$ 293.02 billion) compared to SR 759.18 billion (US$ 202.45 billion) for the previous year, increasing by 44.74%.
The total number of Transactions executed during the year 2011 reached 25.55 million compared to 19.54 million trades for the previous year, increasing by 30.77%.
The total number of Shares Traded* for the year 2011 reached 48.54 billion compared to 33.33 billion shares traded during the previous year, increasing by 45.61%.
The Daily Average Number of Transactions executed during the year 2011 reached 103.01 thousand trades compared to 78.46 thousand trades during the previous year, increasing by 31.29%.
The Daily Average Value of Shares Traded during the year 2011 reached SR 4,430.79 million compared to SR 3,048.93 million for the previous year, increasing by 45.32%.
The Daily Average Number of Shares Traded during the year 2011 reached 195.71 million shares compared to 133.87 million shares traded during the previous year, increasing by 46.19%.
Sectoral Activities:
In term of number of transactions during the year 2011, the Insurance sector was the most active sector with 6.96 million trades that represent 27.24% of the total trades during the year, followed by the Petrochemical Industries sector with 4.07 million trades or 15.95% and the Agriculture & Food Industries sector 3.00 million trades or 11.76% of the total trades executed during the year 2011.
The Petrochemical Industries sector led the market in term of value of shares traded during the year 2011 amounting to SR 329.39 billion that represent 29.98% of the total value traded, followed by the Insurance sector with SR 197.47 billion or 17.97% and the Agriculture & Food Industries sector SR 108.34 billion or 9.86% of the total value traded during the year 2011.
In term of volume of shares traded (adjusted), the Petrochemical Industries sector was the most active sector during the year 2011, the number of shares traded for the sector reached 9.55 billion shares that represent 19.67% of the total volume traded during the year, followed by the Insurance Sector with a volume of 7.19 billion shares or 14.81% and the Real Estate Development Sector with 5.30 billion shares traded or 10.91% of the total shares traded during the year 2011.
Stock Activities:
With respect to stocks activity during the year 2011, SABIC led the market in term of number of transactions with 1,266.29 thousand trades, followed by Solidarity and Alinma Bank with 559.48 and 482.29 thousand transactions respectively.
SABIC was also the market leader in term of value of shares traded during the year 2011 and has posted a turnover of SR 152.98 billion. The two other most active stocks were Saudi Kayan and Alinma Bank that posted a value of SR 42.66 billion and SR 38.76 billion respectively.
In term of number of shares traded (adjusted) during the year 2011, Alinma Bank topped the list with 3.95 billion shares traded during the year, followed by Saudi Kayan and Zain KSA with a volume of 2.37 and 2.29 billion shares respectively.
Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) Summary - 2011
The number of companies offered parts of its shares to public (IPOs) during the year 2011 reached 5 companies (representing Cement, Retail, Telecom.& information Technology, Insurance and Building & Construction sectors), bringing the total number of listed companies to 150 (Saudi Enaya Company is not yet listed).
The total offered value reached SR 1.73 billion and the number of shares offered for all IPOs during the year 2011 was 116.9 million shares.
By the end of the year 2011 the market capitalization of the listed IPOs companies (4 companies) reached SR 6.32 billion that represent 0.50% of the total market capitalization.
* Historical prices & volume traded data are adjusted to account for all corporate actions during the year. Numbers of trading days during 2011 were 248 days, against 249 trading days during 2010.
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