UZSE turnover makes up 54.7bn soums in 1Q

The exchange recorded 423 deals (189 deals in January-March 2014) with 104.1 million shares of 43 public companies in the reporting period.

The share of the secondary market made up 83.4% from total turnover or 45.6 billion soums in the reporting period, of which 0.6 billion fell to share of REPO deals. The growth of the secondary market turnover made up almost 10 times in the reporting period (4.3 billion soums).

The IPO market share was 16.6% or 9.1 billion soums, which grew by almost 10% compared to January-March 2014 (8.2 billion soums).

The secondary market grew due to active trades with the shares of the commercial banks. Deals for about 33 billion soums (72% of total turnover) were recorded with securities of Ipoteka Bank, InFinBank – 6.2 billion soums and Kapitalbank – 2.6 billion soums.

The exchange said that no deals were recorded with corporate bonds in January-March 2015. In the same period of 2014, the turnover of the UZSE with corporate bonds made up 4.6 billion soums.

About 96.6% of total turnover or 52.7 billion fell to share of financial sector. About 95.6% of turnover or 52.3 billion soums fell to share of banks, 0.1% or 0.5 billion – insurance companies and 0.04% or 0.02 billion – leasing companies. In the first quarter of 2014, the share of financial sector was 88.1% or 11 billion soums.

Share of agriculture complex made up 0.1% in total turnover or 0.06 billion soums (3.3% and 0.4 billion soums in Jan-Mar 2014).

The industrial sector accounted 0.13% of total turnover or 0.07 billion soums in January-March 2015 (6.5% and 0.8 billion soums in January-March 2014).

Share of construction industry in total turnover was 1.3% or 0.7 billion soums in January-March 2015 (1.4% or 0.2 billion soums in January-March 2014).