January 12 (SeeNews) – Three of the five indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) gained ground on Friday, with the blue-chip SOFIX jumping 1.01% to 777.54 points, bourse data showed.
A 4.71% advance in IoT products maker Shelly Group [BUL:SLYG] to 53.40 levs and a 3.64% climb in pharmaceuticals trader Sopharma Trading [BUL:SFT] to 5.70 levs drove up the benchmark index.
The two companies also buoyed the BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, and the BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight. Both indices were further lifted by a 5.71% leap in poultry producer Gradus [BUL:GR6] to 1.48 levs, with the BGBX40’s biggest gainer being diversified group Zarneni Hrani Bulgaria [BUL:ZHBG], which surged 7.50% to 0.129 levs.
Overall, the BGBX40 went up 0.92% to 159.91 points, while the BGTR30 added 0.75% to 805.91 points.
In comparison, the BEAMX index, which tracks the ten most highly-capitalised growth companies, dipped by 0.14% to 103.87 points. It was constrained by investment company HR Capital [BUL:HRC], which declined by 1.94% to 2.02 levs, and organic foods producer and distributor Smart Organic [BUL:SO], which slid 1.82% to 21.60 levs.
The BGREIT, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, ended the session flat at 191.83 points as neither of the two constituents to trade posted any changes from the previous day’s close.
Total turnover on the main market of the Sofia bourse grew to roughly 1.87 million levs ($1.05 million/956,112 euro) on Friday from 1.47 million levs a day earlier.
Shelly Group was also the top stock by turnover, generating 774,674 levs with 14,507 shares changing hands.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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