How NEPSE performed in ten months?  232 companies market capitalization stood at Rs 963.53 billion

ShareSansar, June 28:

NEPSE index increased by 10.1 percent to 938.2 points in mid-May 2015 on year-on-year basis. This index had increased by 73.7 percent to 852.1 points a year ago.
 
The year-on-year stock market capitalization increased by 10.9 percent to Rs. 963.53 billion in mid-May 2015.

Of the total market capitalization as of mid-May 2015, the share of banks and financial institutions (including insurance companies) stood at 78.0 percent while that of hydropower 6.9 percent, hotels as well as manufacturing and processing companies 2.7 percent each, trading 0.1 percent and other sectors 9.5 percent.

Total number of companies listed at the NEPSE decreased from 239 in mid-May 2014 to 232 in mid-May 2015.

Merger of some bank and financial institutions during this period resulted in a decline in the number of listed companies. Of the total listed companies the number of banks and financial institutions (including insurance companies) stood at 198 followed by production and processing industries at 18, hotels at 4, business entities at 4, hydropower at 6 and other companies at 2.

On y-o-y basis, total paid-up capital of the listed companies increased by 21.5 percent to Rs. 177.52 billion in mid-May 2015. Securities worth Rs. 19.82 billion comprising ordinary shares of Rs. 9.11 billion, right shares of Rs. 1.05 billion and bonus shares of Rs. 9.65 billion have been listed at the NEPSE during the ten months of 2014/15