The Casablanca Stock Exchange closed its trading in positive territory on Monday, its flagship index, the MASI, gaining 0.02% to 13,303.38 points (pts).
The MASI.20, an index of the 20 most liquid stocks, fell by 0.16% to 1,073.08 points, while the MASI.ESG, an index of companies with the best ESG rating, as published by Moody’s ESG Solutions, gained 0.06% to 968.70 points.
For its part, the MASI Mid and Small Cap, a thematic index which calculates the performance of the prices of small and medium-sized companies listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange, remained stable at 1,207.85 points.
On the international side, the FTSE CSE Morocco 15 and the FTSE CSE Morocco All-Liquid closed with respective drops of 0.22% to 12,323.09 pts, and 0.17% to 11,077.43 pts.
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In terms of sectors, the “Finance company and other real estate activities” index (+5.82%) recorded the highest increase, followed by the “Insurance” (+4.19%) and “Chemicals” (+3.42%) indices.
On the other hand, the pharmaceutical industry sector showed the largest decline (-4.16%), followed by those of real estate participation and development (-2.58%) and holding companies (-2 .05%).
Trade stood at 82.06 million dirhams (MDH), carried out mainly on the Central market (Shares) and dominated by transactions on Akdital (27.03 MDH), BCP (26.93 MDH) and Attijariwafa Bank ( 8.35 MDH).
The market capitalization reached more than 693.04 billion dirhams (MMDH).
In terms of values, the best performances were the work of Eqdom (+9.64% to 1,160 DH), Wafa assurances (+7.64% to 4,198 DH), Salafin (+7.31% to 569.80 DH) , BMCI (+6.26% to 642.90 DH) and Fénie Brossette (+5.71% to 103.70 DH).
Against the trend, Sothema (-4.70% at 953 DH), Douja Prom Addoha (-3.53% at 29.21 DH), Résidences Dar Saada (-2.53% at 77.05 DH), CFG Bank (-2.28% at 156.35 DH) and Sonasid (-2.14% at 815.20 DH) recorded the biggest falls.
With MAP
