Qatar Stock Exchange building
Doha, Qatar: The shares in Qatar’s stock market witnessed gain in yesterday’s trading as the Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) index surged around 51 points or 0.46% to close at 11,140.77 points helped by strong buying interest from investors.
The index concluded Monday’s trading at 11,089 points. During yesterday’s session the volume of shares traded stood at 120,740,031 from 84,539,125 on November 10. Meanwhile the value of shares reached QR383.024m from QR306.941m on Monday, as a result of implementing 25,421 deals in all sectors. In the session, the shares of 31 companies rose, while the prices of 22 companies decreased, and three companies remained unchanged.
The indices of six sectors ended in green zone yesterday. The indices of banks and financial services, industrials, transportation, real estate, telecoms, and consumer goods and services gained 0.62%, 0.23%, 0.57%, 0.73%, 0.52% and 0.35% respectively. Meanwhile the insurance sector declined by 0.32%.
QSE Total Return Index gained 0.46% to 26,638.20, QSE Al Rayan Islamic index added 0.25% to 5,315.38 points, MSCI QSE 20ESG Index gained 0.58% to 900.50 and QSE All Share Index rose 0.50% to 4,176.59 points
Top gainers in yesterday’s trade were Salam International, Doha Bank, Al Mahhar Holding Company, Meeza QSTP, and Barwa Real Estate rising by 2.6%, 2.2%, 1.5%, 1.3% and 1.2% respectively.
Meanwhile QLM Life and Medical Insurance, Lesha Bank, Medicare Group, Estithmar Holding, and Widam Food Company were the top losers, declining 2.9%, 1.1%, 1%, 0.1% and 0.9%, respectively.
Recently, the net profit for the companies listed on the Qatar Stock Exchange was announced which witnessed an increase by 2.45% for the nine-month period of this year, reaching QR41.083bn, compared to QR40.101bn for the same period in last year.
This was mainly supported by earnings expansion in the real estate, services and consumer goods, and insurance sectors.
The banks and financial services sector which has 13 listed entities saw a 0.52% a rise compared to same period last year with total net profit reaching QR23.266bn.
The consumer goods and services sector, which has 12 listed entities, witnessed a 16.20% surge in the total net profit to QR1,615,625 at the end of nine-month period. The industry sector with ten companies, registered a net profit of QR7,353,844 in the review period.
