Non Jordanian Investment at The ASE During March 2015

The total value of shares that were bought by non-Jordanian investors during March 2015 was JD 55.4million, representing 24.8% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD45.3 million. As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investment during March 2015 showed an increase by JD10.1 million, compared with an increase by JD2.6 million during the same month of 2014.

The total value of shares that were bought by non-Jordanian investors since the beginning of the year until the end of March 2015 was JD120.4 million, representing 18.6% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD107.8 million. As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investments showed an increase of JD12.6 million, compared to a decrease by JD16.5 million for the same period of 2014.  

Arab investors purchases since the beginning of the year until the end of March 2015  were JD103.6 million, or 86% of the overall purchases by non-Jordanians, while the value of non-Arab purchases amounted to JD16.8 million, constituting 14% of the total purchases. Arab investors sales amounted to JD94.7 million, 87.8% of non-Jordanians total sales, while the value of non-Arab sales amounted to JD13.2 million, representing 12.2% of the total sales by non-Jordanians.

Non-Jordanian ownership in companies listed at the ASE by end of March 2015 represented 48.4% of the total market value, 36.0% for Arab investors and 12.4% for non-Arab investors. At the sector level, the non-Jordanian ownership in the financial sector was 54.3%, in the services sector was 27.4%, and in the industrial sector was 50.0%.