• June 9, 2016

    التأثير المحتمل لإصلاحات سوق رأس المال في المملكة العربية السعودية

    The Tadawul All Share Index plans to increase the listings to 250 companies from about 170 now, over the next seven years. Its current market capitalization of $396 billion is expected to add close to $ 120-130 bn post the IPO of Aramco and possible inclusion into the MSCI emerging market index by Mid-2017. The aim of the government is to increase the size of Saudi Arabia’s stock market to match that of its GDP within seven years (2014 -$798...

  • June 7, 2016

    MENA Markets Break its Correlation to Oil

    S&P GCC also declined by 5.1% in May, to close at 90 points. Worries over contraction in the construction industry and possibility of rise in provisions and non-performing loans in regional banks made investors wary of taking long-term positions in banking and construction shares, despite positive Q1 results for the former. MENA markets liquidity had a negative month, with volumes decreasing by 32% and value traded falling by 7%. Morocco and Bahrain witnessed increases in both volume and value traded,...

  • May 15, 2016

    إدارة التعويم الكبير – أرامكو السعودية

    The market capitalization of the Saudi Arabian stock market is currently around USD 400bn and the IPO of Aramco could add further USD 100bn to the market capitalization (Financial Times). Inclusion of Saudi Aramco in energy sector would increase its weightage from the current value of 21.1% to 36.8% in the Tadawul index pushing the dominant financial services sector from the top spot. We believe the revised weightage where petrochemicals/energy sector dominates the index rather than the financial sector is...

  • May 5, 2016

    يعمل ارتفاع سجل برنت على استدامة النشاط في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا

    Gulf markets have been gaining for the past couple of months, on the back of strong oil market performance, with the belief that the oil price movements have turned a corner. Investor focus has now shifted to the corporate earnings that are affected by the austerity measures, which were undertaken due to low oil prices. The TASI index performance was largely due to companies beating their first-quarter earnings estimates, as well as the surge in oil prices. The combined net...

  • April 18, 2016

    لا تزال هذه الأسهم في الإمارات العربية المتحدة والمملكة العربية السعودية تتداول فوق معدل السعر إلى الأرباح لمدة 5 سنوات على الرغم من تراجع السوق

    According to an analysis by Marmore MENA Intelligence (www.marmoremena.com), a research house specialized in MENA economies and business issues with the focus on providing actionable solutions, out of a total of 121 UAE-listed stocks (comprising of ADX’s 65, Nasdaq Dubai’s 5 and DFM’s 52), 12 stocks are trading at multiples that are higher than their 5-year average PE multiples, which includes stocks such as Etisalat, du, Aramex, Commercial Bank of Dubai and RAK ceramics, among others. Likewise, out of 173...

  • April 6, 2016

    أسواق أسهم دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي: أين البحث؟

    Compared to most developed and emerging markets, the Gulf Cooperation Council’s stock markets suffer from poor research coverage.   The four largest GCC equity markets together enjoy less than a third of the research coverage of other regions, with that available often restricted to large stocks, leaving mid-cap and small-cap stocks mostly ignored from the spectrum.   In the GCC, the major producers of research are a handful of domestic banks and investment houses, which have research as an auxiliary...

  • April 5, 2016

    شهدت أسواق الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا ارتفاعًا في أسعار النفط في شهر مارس

    Egypt’s stocks rose in March, as the country’s central bank devalued its currency and stated that it would adopt a more flexible exchange-rate policy, to ease an acute dollar shortage that is hurting the economy. The devaluation, along with other measures, made stocks cheaper for both domestic and foreign investors, who went on a purchasing binge. The exchange closed the month at 687 points, up from 560 points in February, in what has been the single largest monthly gain in...

  • January 21, 2016

    توقعات سوق الأسهم القطرية في عام 2016

    Price-to-earnings multiple for Qatar has fallen by 25% and currently stands at 11.1x. Qatar market is relatively undervalued when compared to the markets of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Investor interest in the market waned post 2014 owing to poor international conditions. Qatar also has the highest dividend yield in the region at 5.1%. We expect corporate earnings growth to be slightly negative in 2016. Earnings are expected to slightly reduce as infrastructure spending peaks. Real estate and commodities sector in...

  • January 21, 2016

    شهد مؤشر أسهم كويت 15 ارتفاعًا قياسيًا

    Instead of analyzing the index we are going to  analyze performance on a stock level and measure the divergence from the recorded all-time highs (ATH) of the respective stocks since fundamentally sound stocks (good top and bottom line growth, sound management etc.) consistently establish new ATH’s reflecting growth and opportunities. While stagnant companies may struggle to re-conquer their ATH’s and can thus test investor patience (Japan for e.g.). Looking at Kuwait 15 Index constituents, the only positive news comes from...

  • January 20, 2016

    توقعات سوق الأسهم الإماراتية في عام 2016

    Valuation: Positive  Price-to-earnings multiple for UAE fell by 13% in 2015 and currently stands at 10.4x. The fall has been the most in Dubai index, wherein, the P/E multiple contracted by 25% from 12.4x at the start of year to a current value of 9.3x. UAE markets seem attractive for investors with P/E ratio of 10.4 while its comparable peers Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are slightly overvalued at 14.4 and 13 respectively. On P/B basis, UAE (1.3) is slightly overvalued...