The number of individual investors in the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul)at the end of the third quarter of 2019, about 4.767 million investors, thehighest level since the third quarter 2015, owning 10.291 million portfolios bythe end of the period.
The number of investors rose 1.0% to 48,308, compared to 4.671million at the end of the same period in 2018, based on data of Tadawul and theCapital Market Authority (CMA).
Males constitute the highest percentage of the total number ofindividual investors by the end of the period, by 78.7%, while the number offemales constituted 21.3%.
The number of female investors rose to its highest level since thebeginning of the announcement of the number of investors at the end of thesecond quarter of 2013 – about seven years – to reach 1.016 million investors,a growth of 1.3%.
The number of male investors in the stock market rose to about 3.75million investors, a growth of 0.9% during the year.
As for portfolios, the number of 10.291 million portfolios rose toits highest level compared to 9.751 million portfolios at the end of the sameperiod in 2018, registering a growth of 5.5% equivalent to about 539.806thousand portfolios.
When the number of portfolios held by individual investors isdistributed to their number, it is clear that the average holdings of eachindividual investor is about 2.16 portfolios compared to 2.07 portfolios by theend of the third quarter 2018 and compared to 1.93 portfolios by the end of thesecond quarter of 2019.
The market capitalization of the issued shares in the Saudi marketat the end of the third quarter of 2019 amounted to about SAR1.908tn comparedto SAR1.899tn at the end of the same period in 2018, registering a growth of0.47%.
The number of listed companies, in addition to real estate funds,rose to 193 by the end of the third quarter of 2019 compared to 188 companiesand funds for the corresponding period last year.
The main market index reached 8091.76 points compared to 7,999.54points at the end of the third quarter 2018, registering a growth of 1.15%.
