Foreign investors hiked stakes in 65 listed firms on March 12

15/03/2018 Argaam Special

 

Qualified foreign investors (QFIs) increased their stakes in 65 Tadawul-listed firms on Monday, March 12, while 55 companies saw foreign investors cutting stakes, market data compiled by Argaam showed.

 

United International Transportation Co. Ltd. (Budget Saudi), Advanced Petrochemical Co. and Bupa Arabia Cooperative Insurance Co. were the top companies seeing further purchases by foreign investors. 

 

Foreign investors raised their shareholdings in Budget Saudi by 0.54 percent, and in Advanced and Bupa Arabia by 0.14 percent and 0.13 percent, respectively.

 

Top Five Stocks Where QFIs Increased Stakes

Company

Previous stake

Current stake

Variation

Number of shares

Budget Saudi

 15.37%

 15.91%

+0.54%

384,300

Advanced

 1.92%

 2.06%

+0.14%

275,512

Bupa Arabia

 42.64%

42.77%

+0.13%

104,000

Almarai

 1.95%

 2.06%

+0.11%

1,100,000

Al Khaleej Training

 5.72%

 5.83%

+0.11%

44,000

 

Meanwhile, Gulf Union Cooperative Insurance Co. and Al Ahlia for Cooperative Insurance Co. saw the highest stock sales by foreign investors, with QFIs offloading 0.37 and 0.36 percent of their holdings, respectively.

 

Top Five Stocks Where QFIs Offloaded Stakes

Company

Previous stake

Current stake

Variation

Number of shares

Gulf Union

 3.68%

3.31%

(0.37%)

55,500

Al Ahlia

 21.05%

 20.69%

(0.36%)

60,000

SARCO

 1.88%

 1.59%

(0.29%)

43,500

Alandalus

 1.14%

 0.88%

(0.26%)

182,000

Anaam Holding

 1.16%

 0.98%

(0.18%)

35,280

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