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- Trading volume up by 15% to EUR 19.13 billion in Q1 2018
- +80% of equity trading generated by international trading members
- All-time high in tradable equities
- Record in price data dissemination on 6 February
Vienna Stock Exchange recorded an equity trading volume of EUR 19.13 billion in the first quarter of 2018, up by 15% yoy (Q1 2017: EUR 16.62 billion). The average monthly trading volume was around EUR 6.38 billion. Apart from continuous trading, auction trading was also dynamic in the first quarter with more than every third order executed in auction trading. The expansion of the global market segment has created the largest selection of stocks ever for domestic investors on the Vienna Stock Exchange. With more than 570 tradable equities, more shares (and equity-linked certificates) are tradable in Vienna than ever before.
“Our strategy is bearing fruit. On the one hand, we offer the most liquid marketplace for domestic stocks – as recently confirmed by ESMA – and, on the other, we enable trading in international stocks in Vienna with the best execution. Trading volumes show that our wider range of offerings has been well received by investors,” said Christoph Boschan, CEO of Wiener Börse AG.
Most active stocks and trading members
The most active Austrian stock was Erste Group Bank AG with EUR 3.49 billion, ahead of OMV AG with EUR 2.43 billion and Raiffeisen Bank International AG with EUR 1.99 billion. In fourth and fifth place were voestalpine AG (EUR 1.96 billion) and BUWOG AG (EUR 1.53 billion). The most frequently-traded stock on the global market was RHI Magnesita N.V. with EUR 148.6 million. On the ETF segment, LYXOR ETF EURO STOXX 50 was the most active instrument (EUR 4.9 million). The voestalpine bond 2017 -2024 with a coupon of 1.375% was the most frequently-traded corporate bond (EUR 3.9 million).
Over 80% of equity trading is generated by international trading members. A ranking of trading members by turnover places Morgan Stanley & Co at the top at 12.56%, ahead of Merrill Lynch International (9.05%) and Raiffeisen Centrobank AG (7.03%). J.P. Morgan Securities plc (6.90%) and Erste Group Bank AG (6.37%) came in fourth and fifth in the ranking.
All-time high on data highway
The market datafeed of the Vienna Stock Exchange hit an all-time high in price data dissemination for the ten markets of the region, to end customers in 68 countries worldwide. Throughout Europe, a total of 80 trading participants and some 250 data customers rely on the services of the Vienna Stock Exchange.
“The Vienna Stock Exchange is constantly investing in IT innovation in order to maintain its central system infrastructure in excellent working order, and to stay one step ahead of the growing volumes of data. We are aiming to consistently offer our customers the highest level of system availability,” stressed Ludwig Nießen, COO & CTO of Wiener Börse AG.
Price movements, winners & losers in the leading ATX index
While the major leading European indices slipped into negative territory, the ATX has been on a sideways trend since the start of the year with a gain of 0.25% (+0.47% incl. dividends). The Austrian leading index stood at 3,428.53 points on 29 March 2018. With a price gain of 28.86%, FACC AG was the best performer in the ATX, followed by Verbund AG with +17.15% and Erste Group Bank AG with a gain of 13.00%. The market capitalization of all domestic companies listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange was EUR 133.30 billion on 29 March 2018.
Details on the individual market segments, indices and securities are available on our Web Statistics page. A comparison of European stock exchanges is available in the statistics published by the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE).
