Foreign investors hiked stakes in 59 listed firms on Feb. 26

01/03/2018 Argaam Special

Qualified foreign investors (QFIs) increased their stakes in 59 Tadawul-listed firms on Monday, Feb. 26, while 39 companies saw foreign investors cutting stakes, market data compiled by Argaam showed.

Saudi Industrial Export Co. (SIECO) and Saudi Indian Company for Cooperative Insurance (Wafa Insurance) were the top companies seeing further purchases by foreign investors. 

Foreign investors raised their shareholdings in SIECO by 0.22 percent, and in Wafa by 0.18 percent, respectively.

Top Five Stocks Where QFIs Increased Stakes

Company

Previous stake

Current stake

Variation

Number of shares

SIECO

 1.43%

 1.65%

+0.22%

2,376

Wafa

 13.23%

 13.41%

+0.18%

18,639

Budget Saudi

 14.62%

 14.74%

+0.12%

85,400

Alinma

 1.96%

 2.08%

+0.12%

1,800,000

Dar Al-Arkan

 2.24%

 2.35%

+0.11%

1,188,000

Meanwhile, Bupa Arabia for Cooperative Insurance, Malath Cooperative Insurance Co., and Tourism Enterprise Co. (Shams) saw the highest stock sales by foreign investors, with QFIs offloading 0.07 percent of their holdings in each.

Top Five Stocks Where QFIs Offloaded Stakes

Company

Previous stake

Current stake

Variation

Number of shares

Bupa Arabia

 41.36%

41.29%

(0.07%)

56,000

Malath

 18.82%

 18.75%

(0.07%)

35,000

Shams

 1.86%

 1.79%

(0.07%)

7,105

Nama

 1.80%

 1.74%

(0.06%)

14,112

Alhokair

 4.04%

 3.98%

(0.06%)

126,000


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