In the first 9 months of 2016, the volume of the exchange deals at the Republican stock exchange “Toshkent” made up 170,4 billion soums, which is 1.5 times higher than in the corresponding period last year (for 9 months of 2015 – 113.5 billion soums). The reporting period saw the sale of 222,8 million pieces of securities of 95 companies.
A total of 2193 deals were concluded, which is almost 1.2 times higher than for the same period of last year (1844 deals).
The exchange turnover in terms of major sectors of the economy in the reporting period was as follows:
– the share of enterprises of the financial sector of the economy accounted for 55.7% of the exchange turnover or 94.9 billion soums, including banks – 55% of the exchange turnover or 93.8 billion soums and insurance companies 1.1 billion soums (0.7%).
– agriculture –5.5% or 9.4 billion soums (for 9 months of 2015 it was 10.2% or 11.6 billion soums);
– industrial sector – 8% or 13.7 billion soums (9 months in 2015 – 0.2% or 1.5 billion soums);
– enterprises of the construction industry – 1.1% or 1.8 billion soums (9 months of 2015 – 2.2% or 2.5 billion soums).
If to consider the indicators of the exchange in terms of categories of investors, the volume of investments of legal entities makes up the bulk of stock exchange’s turnover – 133.5 billion soums or 78.3% of the total exchange turnover, while the share of foreign investors amounted to 31.7%, or 54.1 billion soums respectively.
The reporting period also saw a rise in investment activity of individuals, whose share in the turnover amounted to 21.7% or 37 billion soums (for 9 months of 2015, the share of investors – individuals was 16.4%, or 18.6 billion soums).
At the beginning of 2016, there were 261 companies in the exchange’s quotation sheet, so far, 79 new companies have been included up to date, while 45 companies underwent delisting. As a result, as at 30 September 2016 the exchange’s quotation sheet included 295 joint-stock companies (as of September 30, 2015 178 JSC).
