The Casablanca Stock Exchange ended close to equilibrium on Tuesday, the MASI taking 0.01% to 10,472.04 points (pts).
The MASI.20, an index comprising the 20 most liquid stocks, lost ground by 0.02%, to 839.33 pts, and the MASI.ESG, an index of companies with the best ESG ratings, such as published by Moody’s ESG Solutions, dropped 0.27% to 793.22 pts.
The MASI Mid and Small Cap, thematic index which calculates the price performance of small and medium-sized companies listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange, rose 0.6%, to 859.67 pts. On the international side, the FTSE CSE Morocco 15, made up of the 15 main stocks on the Casablanca Stock Exchange, classified by market capitalization, fell by 0.01%, to 9,576.6 pts, and the FTSE CSE Morocco All-Liquid, index benchmark which traces the performance of all liquid stocks on the stock market, fell 0.06% to 8,707.64 pts.
The pharmaceutical sector posted the strongest increase (+4.85%), followed by the transport services sector (+2.57%), the beverage sector (+2.02%), and the leisure and hotels (+1.68%).
On the losing side, the index of leisure and hotel companies showed the biggest drop (-1.68%), followed by the index of holding companies (-1.45%) and the mining index (-1.26%).
The overall volume of trade was 41.7 million dirhams (MDH) made on the Central Market (Shares) and dominated by transactions involving Label Vie (17.35 MDH), Attijariwafa Bank (7.84 MDH) and Sodep-Marsa Morocco (5.91 MDH). Market capitalization exceeded 546.22 billion dirhams.
At the individual level, the highest increases were recorded by Stokvis Nord Afrique (+5.87% to 11.37 dirhams (DH)), Sothema (+5.38% to 1,370 DH), Sanlam Maroc (+4, 62% to 993.9 DH), Eqdom (+3.99% to 909.9 DH) and Ib Maroc.Com (+3.96% to 18.92 DH).
In contrast, Salafin (-3.84% to 589 DH), Wafa Assurance (-2.67% to 3,650 DH), Bcp (-2.1% to 231 DH), Managem (-1.88% to 2,501 DH) and Risma (-1.68% to 117 DH) showed the biggest drops.
