Listing
Total number of listed companies on the main market amounted to 215 at the end of January 2015. Meanwhile, the number of listed companies on Nilex reached 33 at the end of the month.
No companies were listed this month.
Turnover
Total number of trading days in January 2015 amounted to 18 days, with a total value traded of US$ 2,891 million (LE 21,656 million). Value traded of the main market amounted to US$ 2,698 million (LE 20,211 million), of which shares, bonds and funds represented 66.44%, 33.56% and 0%, respectively. Unlisted securities i.e. Over the Counter trading reached US$ 190 million (LE 1,420 million), which represents 6.56% of total value traded for the month. Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 3 million (LE 24 million) during the month.
This is in comparison to December 2014, when value traded of the main market amounted to US$ 3,528 million (LE 25,188 million), of which shares represented 65.89%, bonds 34.11% and funds 0%. In addition, the OTC trading amounted to US$ 240 million (LE 1,711 million), i.e. 6.34% of total trading (on- and off-exchange trading), which reached US$ 3,780 million (LE 26,987 million). Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 12 million (LE 88 million) during the month.
Total volume traded of the main market for this month reached 2,752.90 million securities. Meanwhile, the total volume traded of the OTC market has reached 118.44 million securities. Nilex has recorded a trading volume of 15.14 million securities.
During January 2015, 476,253 transactions were concluded with an average of 26,458 trades per day, as opposed to 622,789 transactions were concluded with an average of 27,078 trades per day, during December 2014.
Indices
EGX 30 index, the official market index, witnessed an increase of 10.27% in January 2015, to close at 9843.1 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 32.92%
Meanwhile, EGX 70 price index witnessed an increase of 1.97% in January 2015, to close at 576.56 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 1.38%
Moreover, EGX 100 price index witnessed an increase of 5.01% in January 2015, to close at 1145.05 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 15.43%.
Moreover, EGX 20 Capped index witnessed an increase of 9.32% in January 2015, to close at 10,965.06 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 24.38%.
Additionally, the Dow Jones EGX Egypt Titans 20 index witnessed an increase of 9.67% in January 2015, to close at 2076.82 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 31.06%.
On the other hand, the S&P/EGX ESG index witnessed an increase of 6.04% in January 2015, to close at 1582.97 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 27.15%.
From another perspective, Nile index witnessed a decline of 1.05% in January 2015, to close at 740.72 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 32.04%.
Price Movements of Selected Shares
The ten most active stocks in the main market represented 73.95% of total traded shares' volume and 56.61% of total traded shares' value for this month.
During the month of January the top five gainers, on the main market, were (in descending order of price change) Advanced Pharmaceutical Packaging Co. (APP) (24.6%), Modern Shorouk Printing & Packaging (22.12%), Elswedy Electric (21.74%), Middle Egypt Flour Mills (19.66%) and Heliopolis Housing (18.72%).
The top five losers were (in ascending order of price change) Rights Issue of Misr Chemical Industries-1 (-42.79%), Orascom Hotels and Development (-23.26%), Arab Ceramics (Aracemco) (-19.75%), GMC Group for Industrial Commercial & Financial Investments (-15.47%) and International Co. for Investment & Development (-15.16%).
Market Capitalization
Total market capitalization of shares in the main market amounted to US$ 70.33 billion (LE 526.76 billion), as of end of January 2015 compared to US$ 70.03 billion (LE 500.02 billion) in December 2014, representing an increase of 5.3%. Meanwhile, Market capitalization for the companies listed on Nilex has reached US$ 144.31 million (LE 1.08 billion) at the end of January 2015.
The bond capitalization recorded US$ 199.65 million (LE 1.50 billion) for corporate bonds and US$ 69.72 billion (LE 522.21 billion) for government bonds at the end of January 2015 (Treasury Bonds according to Primary Dealers System). Meanwhile, the market capitalization of the Public Juristic Entities bonds amounted to US$ 667.55 million (LE 5 billion) at the end of January 2015.
Foreign Participation
In January 2015, foreign investors participated with 20.85% of the value traded of the main market, with a net outflow of portfolio foreign investment totaling US$ 37.17 million (LE 278.42 million).
