Listing
Total number of listed companies on EGX in April 2009 decreased to 339 companies as opposed to 351 in the previous month.
There were no new listed companies this month.
Turnover ,
Total number of trading days in April 2009 amounted to 20 days with total value traded of US$ 5961.09 million (LE 33560.94 million). Value traded of listed securities amounted to US$ 5468.69 million (LE 30788.73 million), of which shares, bonds and funds represented 88.27%, 11.73% and 0.00%, respectively. Unlisted securities i.e. Over the Counter trading reached US$ 492.40 million (LE 2772.21 million), which represents 9% of total value traded for the month.
This is in comparison to March 2009, when value traded of listed securities amounted to US$ 3881.55 million (LE 21891.95 million), of which shares represented 84.85%, bonds %15.15 % and funds 0.00%. In addition, the OTC trading amounted to US$ 368.0 million (LE 2075.54 million) i.e. 9% of total trading (on- and off-exchange trading), which reached US$ 4249.55 million (LE 23967.49 million).
Total volume traded of listed securities market for this month reached 3,690.92 million securities.
During April 2009, 1,671,945 transactions were concluded with an average of 83597 trades per day, as opposed to 1,347,777 transactions and an average of 61263 trades per day in March 2009.
Indices
EGX 30 index, the official market index, witnessed a 23.78% increase in April 2009 to reach 5191.34 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 55.96%.
Likewise, EGX 70 price index witnessed a 10.47% increase in April 2009 to reach 579.60 points and witnessed a YoY decline of 52.08%.
Meanwhile, the Dow Jones EGX Egypt Titans 20 index witnessed a 20.74% increase in April, to close at 1049.96 points on 30/4/2009, and a 56.16% decrease on a YoY basis.
Price Movements of Selected Shares
The ten most active stocks represented 47.89% of the total value & 63.42% of the total volume of shares traded for the month.