Foreign investors hiked stakes in 37 listed firms last Wednesday

19/02/2018 Argaam Special

 

Qualified foreign investors (QFIs) increased their stakes in 37 Tadawul-listed firms on Wednesday, Feb. 14, while 63 companies saw foreign investors cutting stakes, market data compiled by Argaam showed.

 

AXA Cooperative Insurance Co., Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Co. (Petro Rabigh) and Middle East Healthcare Co. (Saudi German Hospital) were the top companies seeing further purchases by foreign investors. 

 

Foreign investors raised their shareholdings in AXA by 0.62 percent, and in Petro Rabigh and Saudi German Hospital by 0.06 percent each.

 

Top Five Stocks Where QFIs Increased Stakes

Company

Previous stake

Current stake

Variation

Number of shares

AXA

22.74%

 23.36%

+0.62%

279,000

Petro Rabigh

 38.53%

 38.59%

+0.06%

525,600

Saudi German

 11.34%

 11.40%

+0.06%

55,224

FIPCO

 0.96%

 1.00%

+0.04%

4,600

SAICO

 1.29%

 1.33%

+0.04%

10,000

 

Meanwhile, Salama Cooperative Insurance Co. and Malath Cooperative Insurance Co. saw the highest stock sales by foreign investors, with QFIs offloading 0.78 percent and 0.60 percent of their holdings respectively.

 

Top Five Stocks Where QFIs Offloaded Stakes

Company

Previous stake

Current stake

Variation

Number of shares

Salama

 11.24%

 10.46%

(0.78%)

195,000

Malath

 19.48%

 18.88%

(0.60%)

300,000

Walaa

 12.77%

 12.50%

(0.27%)

108,000

Al Rajhi Takaful

 9.09%

 8.83%

(0.26%)

104,000

Thimar

 1.91%

 1.80%

(0.11%)

11,000

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