Listing
Total number of listed companies on the main market amounted to 212 at the end of July 2012. Meanwhile, the number of listed companies on Nilex reached 22 at the end of July 2012.
There was one new listed company on Nilex this month, with a total capital of US$ 0.41 million (LE 2.5 million). Additionally, one company was listed on the main market, with a total capital of US$ 4.45 million (LE 27 million).
Turnover
Total number of trading days in July 2012 amounted to 21 days with a total value traded of US$ 2,061.84 million (LE 12,518.66 million). Value traded of the main market amounted to US$ 1,581.68 million (LE 9,603.31 million), of which shares, bonds and funds represented 78.44%, 21.56% and 0%, respectively. Unlisted securities i.e. Over the Counter trading reached US$ 477.01 million (LE 2,896.21 million), which represents 23.14% of total value traded for the month. Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 3.15 million (LE 19.14 million) during the month.
This is in comparison to June 2012, when value traded of the main market amounted to US$ 1,746.73 million (LE 10,583.43 million), of which shares represented 48.10%, bonds 51.90% and funds 0%. In addition, the OTC trading amounted to US$ 206.02 million (LE 1,248.27 million), i.e. 10.54% of total trading (on- and off-exchange trading), which reached US$ 1,953.87 million (LE 11,838.48 million). Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 1.12 million (LE 6.77 million) during the month.
Total volume traded of the main market for this month reached 3,284.41 million securities. Meanwhile, the total volume traded of the OTC market has reached 57.29 million securities. Nilex has recorded a trading volume of 4.84 million securities.
During July 2012, 432,902 transactions were concluded with an average of 20,614 trades per day, as opposed to 304,468 transactions and an average of 16,025 trades per day in June 2012.
Indices
EGX 30 index, the official market index, witnessed an increase of 3.27% in July 2012 to reach 4862.53 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 3.44%.
Meanwhile, EGX 70 price index witnessed an increase of 3.45% in July 2012 to reach 436.59 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 31.95%.
Moreover, EGX 100 price index witnessed an increase of 2.91% in July 2012 to reach 750.79 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 21.31%.
Moreover, EGX 20 Capped index witnessed an increase of 2.51% in July 2012 to reach 5588.91 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 1.97%.
Additionally, the Dow Jones EGX Egypt Titans 20 index witnessed an increase of 3.20% in July, to close at 1084.36 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 1.69%.
On the other hand, the S&P/EGX ESG index witnessed an increase of 2.50% in July, to close at 775.45 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 10.36%.
Price Movements of Selected Shares
The ten most active stocks in the main market represented 71.23% of the total value & 85.24% 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) El Obour Real Estate Investment (+48.92%), Egyptians for Investment & Urban Development (+38.00%), Egyptian Transport (EGYTRANS) (+31.46%), Remco for Touristic Villages Construction (+29.85%) and Reacap Financial Investments (+24.39%).
The top five losers were (in ascending order of price change) Saudi Egyptian Investment & Finance (-16.16%), Egypt Aluminum (-10.76%), Suez Bags (-10.55%), Alexandria Flour Mills (-10.28%) and Alexandria National Company for Financial Investment (-9.38%).
Market Capitalization
Total market capitalization of shares in the main market amounted to US$ 55.98 billion (LE 339.91 billion) as of end of July 2012 compared to US$ 56.08 billion (LE 339.77 billion) in June 2012, representing an increase of 0.04%. Meanwhile, Market capitalization for the companies listed on Nilex has reached US$ 204.28 million (LE 1.24 billion) at the end of July 2012.
The bond capitalization recorded US$ 775.22 million (LE 4.71 billion) for corporate bonds and US$ 44.85 billion (LE 272.30 billion) for government bonds at the end of July 2012 (Treasury Bonds according to Primary Dealers System). Meanwhile, the market capitalization of the Public Juristic Entities bonds amounted to US$ 823.51 million (LE 5 billion) at the end of July 2012.
Foreign Participation
In July 2012, foreign investors participated with 23.77% of the value traded of the main market, with a net outflow of portfolio foreign investment totaling US$ 76.62 million (LE 465.20 million).