Screen displays stock prices on the HOSE (Photo: VNA) In 2020, the market capitalisation on HOSE stood at 4.08quadrillion VND, or 67.59 percent of 2019’s GDP, the southern bourse reported.
Ending the last session of December, the benchmark VN-Index reached1,498.28 points, a month-on-month increase of 1.34 percent and a year-on-year rise of 35.73 percent. VNAllshare topped 1,561.33 points, up 1.85 percent month-on-monthand 51.23 percent year-on-year.
The large-cap tracker VN30-Index edged down 0.12 percentcompared to the previous month to close at 1,535.71 points; however, the figurewas 43.42 percent higher than that recorded at the beginning of lastyear.
Industrial stocks posted the highest growth with VNIND Indexgaining 9.79 percent year-on-year. It was followed by shares of the utilitiessector (VNUTI Index), up 6.31 percent; and those of the consumer staples sector(UNCONS) rising 3.93 percent.
The stock market liquidity last month set a record high inthe December 23 session, with more than 1.32 billion shares traded for over45.37 trillion VND in total.
During 2021, the HOSE saw 184.32 billion stocks traded fortotal of over 5.39 quadrillion VND, up 118.68 percent and 244.51 percent,respectively, against 2020. An average of 737.29 million shares, worth nearly21.6 trillion VND per session, were traded on the bourse per session.
As of the end of last year, 533 securities codes had beenlisted on HOSE, including 404 stocks, three close-end fund certificates, eight exchange-tradedfunds (ETF), 113 covered warrants (CW), and five bonds. The number of shareslisted on the bourse exceeded 120.5 billion.
As many as 46 HOSE-listed companies had market capitalisationreaching over 1 billion USD and three hitting over 10 billion USD, namelyVinGroup (VIC), Vietcombank (VCB) and Vinhomes (VHM)./.
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