Listing
Total number of listed companies on the main market amounted to 218 at the end of March 2015. Meanwhile, the number of listed companies on Nilex reached 33 at the end of the month.
Four companies were listed this month, with a total capital of US$ 552.5 million (LE 4,160.6 million).
Turnover
Total number of trading days in March 2015 amounted to 23 days, with a total value traded of US$ 3,212 million (LE 24,189 million). Value traded of the main market amounted to US$ 2,886 million (LE 21,730 million), of which shares, bonds and funds represented 64.64%, 35.36% and 0%, respectively. Unlisted securities i.e. Over the Counter trading reached US$ 320 million (LE 2,407 million), which represents 9.95% of total value traded for the month. Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 7 million (LE 52 million) during the month.
This is in comparison to February 2015, when value traded of the main market amounted to US$ 4,299 million (LE 32,374 million), of which shares represented 72.67%, bonds 27.33% and funds 0%. In addition, the OTC trading amounted to US$ 193 million (LE 1,455 million), i.e. 4.29 % of total trading (on- and off-exchange trading), which reached US$ 4,499 million (LE 33,875 million). Additionally, Nilex has recorded a trading value of US$ 6 million (LE 46 million) during the month.
Total volume traded of the main market for this month reached 2,519.3 million securities. Meanwhile, the total volume traded of the OTC market has reached 236.4 million securities. Nilex has recorded a trading volume of 33.38 million securities.
During March 2015, 444,126 transactions were concluded with an average of 19,310 trades per day, as opposed to 437,488 transactions were concluded with an average of 21,874 trades per day, during February 2015.
Indices
EGX 30 index, the official market index, witnessed a decline of 2.13% in March 2015, to close at 9,134.78 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 17.04%
Meanwhile, EGX 70 price index witnessed a decline of 7.24% in March 2015, to close at 517.61 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 13.06%
Moreover, EGX 100 price index witnessed a decline of 6.17% in March 2015, to close at 1045.63 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 0.42%.
Moreover, EGX 20 Capped index witnessed a decline of 3.48% in March 2015, to close at 9,848.40 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 4.73%.
Additionally, the Dow Jones EGX Egypt Titans 20 index witnessed a decline of 2.56% in March 2015, to close at 1931.68 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 16.7%.
On the other hand, the S&P/EGX ESG index witnessed a decline of 4.77% in March 2015, to close at 1400.79 points and witnessed a YoY increase of 1.56%.
From another perspective, Nile index witnessed an increase of 1.69% in March 2015, to close at 723.48 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 22.6%.
Price Movements of Selected Shares
The ten most active stocks in the main market represented 75.66% of total traded shares' volume and 61.83% of total traded shares' value for this month.
During the month of March the top five gainers, on the main market, were (in descending order of price change) Universal for Paper and Packaging Materials (Unipack) (32.37%), Sabaa International Company for Pharmaceutical and Chemical (16.33%), Export Development Bank of Egypt (EDBE) (12.58%), Alexandria Pharmaceuticals (10.82%) and Egyptian for Developing Building Materials (SAIB) (8.62%).
The top five losers were (in ascending order of price change) Atlas for Land Reclamation and Agricultural Processing (-34.51%), Golden Coast Company (-30.68%), Alexandria National Company for Financial Investment (-23.35%), Tourism Urbanization (-20.09%) and AJWA for Food Industries Company-Egypt (-17.38%).
Market Capitalization
Total market capitalization of shares in the main market amounted to US$ 67.22 billion (LE 506.20 billion), as of end of March 2015 compared to US$ 67.88 billion (LE 511.16 billion) in February 2015, representing a decline of 0.97%. Meanwhile, Market capitalization for the companies listed on Nilex has reached US$ 169.94 million (LE 1.28 billion) at the end of March 2015.
The bond capitalization recorded US$ 198.59 million (LE 1.50 billion) for corporate bonds and US$ 73.78 billion (LE 555.60 billion) for government bonds at the end of March 2015 (Treasury Bonds according to Primary Dealers System). Meanwhile, the market capitalization of the Public Juristic Entities bonds amounted to US$ 664 million (LE 5 billion) at the end of March 2015.
Foreign Participation
In March 2015, foreign investors participated with 24.06% of the value traded of the main market, with a net inflow of portfolio foreign investment totaling US$ 153 million (LE 1,150 million).