July 29 (SeeNews) - The main equity indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) added more than one percent each on Thursday, supported by gains in the share price of ZSE majors, bourse data showed.
ICT solutions provider Ericsson Nikola Tesla [ZSE:ERNT], holding company Adris [ZSE:ADRS2], electrical equipment manufacturer Koncar Elektroindustrija [ZSE:KOEI] and Hrvatski Telekom [ZSE:HT-R-A] all posted gains, data showed.
The ZSE's blue-chip 18-share benchmark CROBEX index advanced 1.01% to a closing value of 1,953.65 points as many of the blue-chip companies announced their financial results for the first half of 2021.
The narrower of the ZSE's two blue-chip indices, the CROBEX10, which tracks the leading companies in terms of free float, market capitalisation and liquidity, advanced 1.04% to finish at 1,204.83 points.
Ericsson Nikola Tesla added 0.30% to close at 1,665 kuna and was, again, the most traded stock, marking a turnover of some 906,000 kuna ($144,000/122,000 euro) on Thursday. Its share price rose for a third straight session after the company announced on Tuesday that its consolidated net profit rose 190% on the year in the first half of 2021, reaching 101.4 million kuna.
Preferred shares of holding company Adris was the second most traded share with a turnover of 622,000 kuna after the company announced on Wednesday that it swing to a net profit of 54 million kuna in the first six months of 2021 from a loss of 45.4 million kuna in the same period of 2020. Its preferred shares gained 2.42% to finish at 424 kuna.
Koncar's shares closed 0.66% higher at 760 kuna on Thursday after the company said its first-half consolidated net profit soared to 74.3 million kuna, from 33.1 million kuna in the same period of last year.
Shares of Hrvatski Telekom added 0.26% to close at 191 kuna. The company announced on Thursday that its consolidated net profit fell to 151.8 million kuna ($24 million/20.2 million euro) in the first half of 2021 from 322.7 million kuna in the same period of last year due to higher amortisation costs, whereas operating revenue rose to 3.662 billion kuna from 3.542 million kuna.
The ZSE's turnover from regular trading rose to 5.1 million kuna from 4.5 million kuna on Wednesday.
(1 euro = 7.507 kuna)