The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) Monthly Statistical Report July 2013

Total number of listed companies on the main market amounted to 210 at the end of July 2013. Meanwhile, the number of listed companies on Nilex reached 23 at the end of the month.

There were no new listed companies this month.

Total number of trading days in July 2013 amounted to 21 days with a total value traded of US$ 1,754.92 million (LE 12,257.96 million). Value traded of the main market amounted to US$ 1,674.47 million (LE 11,696.00 million), of which shares, bonds and funds represented 95.12%, 4.88% and 0%, respectively. Unlisted securities i.e. Over the Counter trading reached US$ 76.15 million (LE 531.90 million), which represents 4.34% of total value traded for the month. Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 4.30 million (LE 30.05 million) during the month.

This is in comparison to June 2013, when value traded of the main market amounted to US$ 806.05 million (LE 5,622.45 million), of which shares represented 82.97%, bonds 17.03% and funds 0%. In addition, the OTC trading amounted to US$ 746.24 million (LE 5,205.25 million), i.e. 48.04% of total trading (on- and off-exchange trading), which reached US$ 1,553.51 million (LE 10,836.21 million). Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 1.22 million (LE 8.51 million)) during the month.

Total volume traded of the main market for this month reached 2,240.12 million securities. Meanwhile, the total volume traded of the OTC market has reached 75.91 million securities. Nilex has recorded a trading volume of 13.94 million securities.

During July 2013, 374,779 transactions were concluded with an average of 17,847 trades per day, as opposed to 267,201 transactions and an average of 12,724 trades per day in June 2013.

EGX 30 index, the official market index, witnessed an increase of 12.05% in July 2013 to reach 5324.7 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 9.50 %.

Meanwhile, EGX 70 price index witnessed an increase of 18.87% in July 2013 to reach 428.16 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 1.93%.

Moreover, EGX 100 price index witnessed an increase of 13.60% in July 2013 to reach 730.44 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 2.71%.

Moreover, EGX 20 Capped index witnessed an increase of 19.19% in July 2013 to reach 6210.59 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 11.12%.

Additionally, the Dow Jones EGX Egypt Titans 20 index witnessed an increase of 10.45% in July, to close at 1182.42 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 9.04%.

On the other hand, the S&P/EGX ESG index witnessed an increase of 18.15% in July, to close at 854.46 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 10.19%.

The ten most active stocks in the main market represented 74.29% of the total value & 70.45% of the total volume of shares traded for the month.

During the month of July, the top five gainers, on the main market, were (in descending order of price change) North Africa Co. for Real Estate Investment (+133.64%), Medical Packaging Company (+116.67%), Egyptians for Investment & Urban Development (+93.65%), Marsa Marsa Alam for Tourism Development (+75.74%) and Advanced Pharmaceutical Packaging Co. (APP) (+59.61%).

The top five losers were (in ascending order of price change) Cairo Medical Center (-14.68%), The Arab Dairy Products Co. ARAB DAIRY (-9.25%), Arab Ceramics (Aracemco) (-7.64%), International Co for Investment & Development (-6.17%) and Cairo Educational Services (-6.11%).

Total market capitalization of shares in the main market amounted to US$ 51.10 billion (LE 356.90 billion) as of end of July 2013 compared to US$ 46.12 billion (LE 321.68 billion) in June 2013, representing an increase of 10.95%. Meanwhile, Market capitalization for the companies listed on Nilex has reached US$ 145.06 million (LE 1.01 billion) at the end of July 2013.

The bond capitalization recorded US$ 648.94 million (LE 4.53 billion) for corporate bonds and US$ 42.84 billion (LE 299.24 billion) for government bonds at the end of July 2013 (Treasury Bonds according to Primary Dealers System). Meanwhile, the market capitalization of the Public Juristic Entities bonds amounted to US$ 715.83 million (LE 5 billion) at the end of July 2013.

In July 2013, foreign investors participated with 48.20% of the value traded of the main market, with a net outflow of portfolio foreign investment totaling US$ 3.91 million (LE 27.30 million).