Non Jordanian Investment at The ASE during October 2014

The total value of shares bought by non-Jordanian investors during October 2014 was JD27.8 million, representing 21.1% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD20.1 million. Thus, the net of non-Jordanian investments during October 2014 showed an increase of JD7.7 million.

The total value of shares that were bought by non-Jordanian investors since the beginning of the year until the end of October 2014 was JD292.5million, representing 15.9% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD319.9 million. As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investments showed a decrease of JD27.4 million, compared to an increase of JD130.3 million for the same period of 2013.

As for the value of total purchases of non-Jordanian investors, the value of the Arab investors purchases since the beginning of the year until the end of October 2014 were JD201.0 million, or 68.7% of the overall purchases by non-Jordanians, while the value of non-Arab purchases amounted to JD91.5million, constituting 31.3% of the total purchases. As for the value of total sales of non-Jordanian investors, the value of the Arab investors sales amounted to JD197.8million, 61.8% of non-Jordanians total sales, while the value of non-Arab sales amounted to JD122.1million, representing 38.2% of the total sales by non-Jordanians.

Non-Jordanian ownership in companies listed at the ASE by the end of October 2014 represented 49.2% of the total market value, 36.3% for Arab investors and 12.9% for non-Arab investors.

At the sector level, the non-Jordanian ownership in the market capitalization of listed companies at the end of October reached 54.7% for the Financial sector, 26.9% for the Services sector, and 51.6% for the Industrial sector.