The Casablanca Stock Exchange closed the week of October 7 to 11 with a slight decline, its main index, the MASI, falling 0.46% to 14,101.61 points.
The MASI.20, which reflects the performance of the 20 most liquid companies, lost 0.78% to 1,132.00 points, while the MASI.ESG, an index of companies with the best ESG rating, fell 0.39% to 1,012.48 points.
Regarding the MASI Mid and Small Cap, which tracks small and medium-sized listed companies, it increased slightly by 0.02% to 1,352.34 points.
On a sectoral level, the most notable declines concerned the real estate sector (-5.24%), investments and industrial equipment goods (-5%) and Forestry & Paper (-3.91%) .
In contrast, the electricity sector stood out with a notable increase of 5.70%, followed by transport (+4.78%) and beverages (+2.98%).
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The overall trading volume on the central market (shares) reached 1.67 billion dirhams, dominated by transactions on Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP) with 28.75% of the total, followed by TAQA Morocco (7.30% ) and Attijariwafa Bank (6.99%).
In terms of market capitalization, it stood at 728.11 billion dirhams, with Attijariwafa Bank in the lead (115.75 billion dirhams), followed by Itissalat Al-Maghrib (80.36 billion dirhams) and the BCP (58.65 billion dirhams).
At individual values, the strongest declines were recorded by SM Monétique (-8.66% to 211 DH), Stroc Industrie (-8.29% to 52 DH), Douja Prom Addoha (-8.26% to 33, 30 DH), Med Paper (-3.91% to 20.66 DH) and Afric Industries SA (-3.86% to 303.50 DH).
In contrast, the largest increases were posted by TAQA Morocco (+5.70% to 1,575 DH), Sanlam Morocco (+5.50% to 1,957 DH), Balima (+5.34% to 230 DH) , CTM (+4.78% to 670.60 DH), and Société des Boissons du Maroc (+3.83% to 2,492 DH).
