2025-11-11
The Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) today gained more than 42 points on the back of strong buying interests from the foreign and Gulf institutions.
The telecom, transport and industrials counters witnessed higher than average demand as the 20-stock Qatar Index rose 0.38% to 11,039.98 points, although it touched an intraday high of 11,113 points.
The Gulf individuals were seen net buyers, albeit at lower levels, in the main market, whose year-to-date gains improved to 4.91%.
About 59% of the traded constituents extended gains to investors in the main bourse, whose capitalisation added QR2.64bn or 0.4% to QR661.87bn, mainly on small and midcap segments.
The local retail investors’ weakened net profit booking had its influence on the main market, which saw as many as 0.03mn exchange traded funds (sponsored by AlRayan Bank and Doha Bank) valued at QR0.08mn trade across 17 deals.
However, the domestic funds were seen increasingly bearish in the main bourse, whose trade turnover and volumes were on the rise.
The Islamic index was seen outperforming the other indices of the main market, which saw no trading of treasury bills.
The Arab retail investors were seen bearish in the main bourse, which saw no trading of sovereign bonds.
The Total Return Index rose 0.38%, the All Share Index by 0.34% and the All Islamic Index by 0.42% in the main market.
The telecom sector index shot up 1.35%, transport (0.59%), industrials (0.57%), insurance (0.29%), banks and financial services (0.18%) and real estate (0.13%); while consumer goods and services were down 0.02%.
As many as 31 stocks gained, while 17 declined and five were unchanged.
Major movers in the main market include QLM, Qamco, Doha Bank, Beema, Qatar Cinema and Film Distributions, Industries Qatar, Doha Insurance, United Development Company, Ezdan, Ooredoo, Vodafone Qatar, Milaha and Gulf Warehousing.
Nevertheless, Baladna, Commercial Bank, Al Mahhar Holding, Qatar Industrial Manufacturing and Qatar Oman Investment were among the shakers in the main bourse. In the venture market, Techno Q saw its shares depreciate in value.
The foreign institutions’ net buying increased significantly to QR15.62mn compared to QR8.98mn the previous day.
The Gulf institutions’ net buying strengthened considerably to QR12.28mn against QR4.7mn on November 9.
The Gulf retail investors turned net buyers to the tune of QR0.55mn compared with net sellers of QR2.68mn on Sunday.
The local individual investors’ net selling declined substantially to QR6.45mn against QR14.78mn the previous day.
However, the domestic institutions’ net selling strengthened drastically to QR15.02mn compared to QR0.82mn on November 9.
The Arab retail investors were net sellers to the extent of QR5.88mn against net buyers of QR3.84mn on Sunday.
The foreign individuals turned net profit takers to the tune of QR1.09mn compared with net buyers of QR0.74mn the previous day.
The Arab institutions had no major net exposure.
The main market saw 6% jump in trade volumes to 84.49mn shares, 46% in value to QR306.8mn and 21% in deals to 17,780.
In the venture market, a total of 0.03mn equities valued at QR0.06mn changed hands across seven transactions.