Riyadh – Mubasher: Five brokerage companies made up about 56.12% of the Saudi Stock Exchange’s (Tadawul) trading activities in September, led by Al Rajhi Capital.
Al Rajhi Capital dominated 18.7% of total activities, exchanging 861.048 million shares via 725,000 transactions, and generating SAR 18.7 billion ($4.99 billion), data released by Tadawul showed.
Aljazira Capital ranked second with 11.88% after 582,800 shares were exchanged, through 300,000 deals, at a turnover of SAR 11.8 billion, while NCB Capital came in third with 9.4% of total volumes after 480,700 shares were exchanged, via 488 transactions, with a turnover of SAR 9.4 billion.
Alistithmar Capital ranked fourth with 8.9% of activities after 358.6 million shares were exchanged, through 122,000 deals, generating SAR 8.83 billion.
HSBC Saudi Arabia Limited came in fifth place, having exchanged 273.3 million shares via 220,000 transactions with liquidity of SAR 7.2 billion.
Last month September, TASI’s trading volume stood at 4.4 million shares, after 3.4 million transactions at a turnover of SAR 99.5 billion ($26.53 billion).
The Saudi bourse’s benchmark index surged 51.29 points, or 0.65%, to 7,999.5 points in September, while market capitalisation increased by SAR 6.2 billion, or 0.33%, to close the month at SAR 1.899 trillion.
