Foreign investors hiked stakes in 70 listed firms on Sunday

17/01/2018 Argaam Special

 

Qualified foreign investors (QFIs) holding shareholdings in Saudi listed firms increased their stakes in 70 firms on Sunday, while 42 listed companies saw foreign investors cutting stakes, market data compiled by Argaam showed.

 

National Medical Care Co. (Care), Tourism Enterprise Co. (Shams) and Mouwasat Medical Services Co. were the top companies seeing further purchases by foreign investors. 

 

Foreign investors raised their shareholdings in Care by 0.31 percent, and in Shams and Mouwasat by 0.22 and 0.21 percent respectively.

 

Top five stocks where QFIs increased stakes

Company

Previous stake

Current stake

Variation

Number of shares

Care

3.77%

4.08%

+0.31%

139,035

Shams

3.01%

3.23%

+0.22%

22,330

Mouwasat

9.63%

9.84%

+0.21%

105,000

Buruj

1.42%

1.59%

+0.17%

42,500

Bank Aljazira

7.92%

8.06%

+0.14%

728,000

 

Meanwhile, Ash-Sharqiyah Development Co. and Saudi Paper Manufacturing Co. saw the highest stock sales by foreign investors, with QFIs offloading 0.23 percent and 0.17 percent of their holdings respectively.

 

Top five stocks where QFIs offloaded stakes

Company

Previous stake

Current stake

Variation

Number of shares

Ash-Sharqiyah

1.00%

0.77%

(0.23%)

17,250

Paper Manufacturing

2.00%

1.83%

(0.17%)

76,500

Gulf General

2.14%

1.98%

(0.16%)

32,000

Adanced

2.17%

2.04%

(0.13%)

255,832

BCI

1.92%

1.82%

(0.10%)

27,500

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