Listing
Total number of listed companies on the main market amounted to 212 at the end of December 2013. 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 December 2013 amounted to 23 days with a total value traded of US$ 2,222.19 million (LE 15,419 million.).
Value traded of the main market amounted to US$ 1,911.96 million (LE 13,266 million), of which shares, bonds and funds represented 67.41%, 32.59% and 0%, respectively. Unlisted securities i.e. Over the Counter trading reached US$ 275.92 million (LE 1,914 million), which represents 12.42% of total value traded for the month. Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 34.311 million (LE 238.068 million) during the month.
Total number of trading days in November 2013 amounted to 19 days with a total value traded of US$ 1,884.3 million (LE LE 12,960 million).
Value traded of the main market amounted to US$ 1,713.81 million (LE 11,787.23 million), of which shares, bonds and funds represented 84.30%, 15.70% and 0%, respectively. Unlisted securities i.e. Over the Counter trading reached US$ 146.4 million (LE 1,007 million), which represents 7.78% of total value traded for the month. Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 23.94 million (LE 164.66 million) during the month.
Total volume traded of the main market for this month reached 3,197 million securities. Meanwhile, the total volume traded of the OTC market has reached 196.08 million securities. Nilex has recorded a trading volume of 61.18 million securities.
During December 2013, 494,303 transactions were concluded with an average of 21,491 trades per day, as opposed to 525,351 transactions were concluded with an average of 27,350 trades per day, during November 2013
Indices
EGX 30 index, the official market index, witnessed an increase of 9.68% in December 2013 to reach 6,782.84 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 24.17%
Meanwhile, EGX 70 price index witnessed an increase of 4.55% in December 2013 to reach 542.19 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 13.65%
Moreover, EGX 100 price index witnessed an increase of 6.48% in December 2013 to reach 923.15 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 15.34 %.
Moreover, EGX 20 Capped index witnessed an increase of 9.19% in December 2013 to reach 7,899.74 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 24.56 %.
Additionally, the Dow Jones EGX Egypt Titans 20 index witnessed an increase of 9.65% in December, to close at 1,476.83 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 21.91 %.
On the other hand, the S&P/EGX ESG index witnessed an increase of 7.19 % in December, to close at 1,062.30 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 14.74 %.
Price Movements of Selected Shares
The ten most active stocks in the main market represented 74.22 % of total traded shares' volume and 48.5 % of total traded shares' value for this month.
During the month of December, the top five gainers, on the main market, were (in descending order of price change) Arabia Investments, Development, Fin. Inv. Holding Comp.-Cash (70.73%), Egyptian Arabian (cmar) Securities Brokerage EAC (64.38%), The Arab Dairy Products Co. ARAB DAIRY (49.26 %), Saudi Egyptian Investment & Finance (37.38 %), El Ezz Porcelain (Gemma) (35.6 %)
The top five losers were (in ascending order of price change) South Cairo & Giza Mills & Bakeries (-20.24 %), Memphis Pharmaceuticals (-16.34 %) Middle Egypt Flour Mills (-14.31 %), Grand Investment Capital (-13.22 %), Misr Duty Free Shops (-12.93 %)
Market Capitalization
Total market capitalization of shares in the main market amounted to US$ 61.51 (LE 426.27 billion), as of end of December 2013 compared to US$ 58.59 (LE 402.98 billion) in November 2013, representing an increase of 5.91%. Meanwhile, Market capitalization for the companies listed on Nilex has reached US$ 206 million (LE 1,429.38 million) at the end of December 2013.
The bond capitalization recorded US$ 641.296 million (LE 4.45 billion) for corporate bonds and US$ 50.75 billion (LE 356.595 billion) for government bonds at the end of December 2013 (Treasury Bonds according to Primary Dealers System). Meanwhile, the market capitalization of the Public Juristic Entities bonds amounted to US$ 720.61 million (LE 5 billion) at the end of December 2013.
Foreign Participation
In December 2013, foreign investors participated with 12.88% of the value traded of the main market, with a net outflow of portfolio foreign investment totaling US$ 23.74 million (LE 164,739 million).