Listing
Total number of listed companies on the main market amounted to 213 at the end of November 2014. Meanwhile, the number of listed companies on Nilex reached 30 at the end of the month.
One company was listed on the main market this month, with a total capital of US$ 14.01 million (LE 100 million). Meanwhile, two companies were listed on Nilex this month, with a total capital of US$ 1.8 million (LE 13 million).
Turnover
Total number of trading days in November 2014 amounted to 21 days, with a total value traded of US$ 2,946 million (LE 21,036 million). Value traded of the main market amounted to US$ 2,822 million (LE 20,147 million), of which shares, bonds and funds represented 74.42%, 25.58% and 0%, respectively. Unlisted securities i.e. Over the Counter trading reached US$ 119 million (LE 851 million), which represents 4.04% of total value traded for the month. Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 5 million (LE 38 million) during the month.
This is in comparison to October 2014, when value traded of the main market amounted to US$ 2,145 million (LE 15,312 million), of which shares represented 80.40%, bonds 19.60% and funds 0%. In addition, the OTC trading amounted to US$ 207 million (LE 1,481 million), i.e. 8.80% of total trading (on- and off-exchange trading), which reached US$ 2,358 million (LE 16,835 million). Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 6 million (LE 42 million) during the month.
Total volume traded of the main market for this month reached 4,507.81million securities. Meanwhile, the total volume traded of the OTC market has reached 235.80 million securities. Nilex has recorded a trading volume of 16.21 million securities.
During November 2014, 607,112 transactions were concluded with an average of 28,910 trades per day, as opposed to 539,261 transactions were concluded with an average of 28,382 trades per day, during October 2014.
Indices
EGX 30 index, the official market index, witnessed an increase of 2.11% in November 2014, to close at 9307.88 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 50.51%
Meanwhile, EGX 70 price index witnessed an increase of 5.04% in November 2014, to close at 640.62 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 23.53%
Moreover, EGX 100 price index witnessed an increase of 3.71% in November 2014, to close at 1151.14 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 32.78%.
Moreover, EGX 20 Capped index witnessed an increase of 3.03% in November 2014, to close at 10829.65 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 49.69%.
Additionally, the Dow Jones EGX Egypt Titans 20 index witnessed an increase of 1.21% in November 2014, to close at 1956.22 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 45.24%.
On the other hand, the S&P/EGX ESG index witnessed an increase of 2.17% in November 2014, to close at 1660.39 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 67.55%.
From another perspective, Nile index witnessed a decline of 0.23% in November 2014, to close at 808.84 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 29.17%.
Price Movements of Selected Shares
The ten most active stocks in the main market represented 80.06% of total traded shares' volume and 52.75% of total traded shares' value for this month.
During the month of November, the top five gainers, on the main market, were (in descending order of price change) Alexandria National Company for Financial Investment (40.77%), Cairo Development and Investment (33.59%), El Ahram Co. For Printing And Packing (33.28%), Prime Holding (30.09%) and National Cement (29.50%).
The top five losers were (in ascending order of price change) Tourism Urbanization (-16.57%), Pyramisa Hotels (-14.03 %), AJWA for Food Industries Company-Egypt (-13.86 %), Maridive & Oil Services (-12.77%) and Middle Egypt Flour Mills (-11.77%).
Market Capitalization
Total market capitalization of shares in the main market amounted to US$ 73.11 billion (LE 522.03 billion), as of end of November 2014 compared to US$ 70.62 billion (LE 504.23 billion) in October 2014, representing increase of 3.53%. Meanwhile, Market capitalization for the companies listed on Nilex has reached US$ 157.70 million (LE 1.13 billion) at the end of November 2014.
The bond capitalization recorded US$ 209.43 million (LE 1.50 billion) for corporate bonds and US$ 68.55 billion (LE 489.47 billion) for government bonds at the end of November 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 November 2014.
Foreign Participation
In November 2014, foreign investors participated with 16.89% of the value traded of the main market, with a net inflow of portfolio foreign investment totaling US$ 54.21 million (LE 387.04 million).