The Casablanca Stock Exchange closed its trading higher on Tuesday, its main index, the MASI, increasing by 0.49% to 14,775.4 points (pts).
The MASI 20, an index bringing together the 20 most liquid stocks, gained 0.36% to 1,197.55 pts, while the MASI ESG, an index of companies with the best ESG rating as published by Moody’s ESG Solutions, took 0 .38% at 1,046.63 pts.
Likewise, the MASI Mid and Small Cap, which measures the performance of small and medium-sized companies listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange, advanced 1.14% to 1,494.5 pts.
At the international level, the FTSE CSE Morocco 15 and FTSE CSE Morocco All-Liquid indices gained, respectively, 0.42% to 13,836.64 pts and 0.36% to 12,430.32 pts.
On a sectoral level, the “Agricultural industry” index (+9.98%) recorded the largest increase followed by the “Holding companies” index (+2.87%) and “Pharmaceutical industry” (+2 .58%).
On the other hand, the mining (-2.24%), chemicals (-1.55%) and transport (-1.31%) sectors posted the largest declines.
Trade exceeded 944.65 million dirhams (MDH), mainly on the central “Shares” market and dominated by transactions on Bank Of Africa (485.63 MDH), Attijariwafa Bank (94.8 MDH) and Société d operation of ports – Marsa Morocco (54.27 MDH).
The market capitalization stood at 755.68 billion dirhams (billion dirhams).
In terms of individual values, CMGP Group, which signed its first stock market listing the day before, achieved, for the second consecutive day, the best performance with an increase of 9.98% to 241.9 DH, ahead of Stokvis Nord Afrique (+ 5.16% to 16.3 DH), SM Monétique (+3.04% to 249.35 DH), Jet Contractors (+3% to 1,680 DH) and Sothema (+2.97% to 947.9 DH).
Conversely, the strongest declines were recorded by Managem (-3.41% to 2,801 DH), Involys (-3.02% to 96 DH), Maghrebail (-3.02% to 900 DH), Aluminum from Morocco (-2.84% to 1,401 DH) and BMCI (-2.52% to 580 DH).
