May 9 (SeeNews) – Four of the five indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) ended in the green on Thursday, with the blue-chip SOFIX climbing 0.46% to 832.94 points, exchange data showed.
The top benchmark performer was software developer Sirma Group Holding [BUL:SGH]which jumped 11.04% to 0.855 levs, followed by First Investment Bank, or Fibank, [BUL:FIB]which grew by 2.81% to 3.66 levs.
Sirma Group was also the day’s most liquid stock, generating 336,085 levs ($184,605/171,837 euro) as 393,082 shares traded.
Total turnover on the main market of the Sofia stock slipped to some 2.37 million levs on Thursday from 2.46 million levs a day earlier.
Sirma Group and Fibank further spurred on the BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia stock, and the BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight. The biggest gainer in the BGBX40 index, however, was fuel retailer Petrol [BUL:PET]which rose 18.18% to 1.04 levs.
Overall, the BGBX40 added 0.23% to 168.22 points, whereas the BGTR30 leapt 0.54% to 836.13 points.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, advanced by 0.16% to 190.14 points, following a 0.81% rise in Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF] to 2.50 levs.
In contrast, the BEAMX index, which tracks the ten most highly capitalized growth companies, shed 0.68% to 97.65 points. It was mostly driven down by a 6.25% drop in venture capital firm Webit Investment Network [BUL:WIN] to 0.75 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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