June 3 (SeeNews) - The main equity indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) ended mixed on Friday amid gains in hotel owner and manager Valamar Riviera and losses in index heavyweights Hrvatski Telekom and Podravka, bourse data showed.
The 23-share blue-chip index, the CROBEX, added 0.19% to finish at 2,092.17 points.
The narrower CROBEX10 which tracks the top ten companies in terms of free float, market capitalisation and liquidity, dipped 0.06% to end at 1,241.94 points.
Hrvatski Telekom [ZSE:HT] was the most traded stock with a turnover of 1.6 million kuna ($228,000/213,000 euro). Its shares lost 0.56% to finish at 177 kuna.
Shares of software company SPAN [ZSE:SPAN] added 1.65% to 246 kuna in a turnover of 1.4 million kuna. It is part of the CROBEX index, but it is not included in the CROBEX10.
The only other company with a turnover above the one million kuna mark on Friday was hotel owner Arena Hospitality [ZSE: ARNT] with 1.1 million kuna. Its shares ended flat at 268 kuna.
Shares of hotel owner and manager Valamar Riviera [ZSE:RIVP] rose 0.30% to 33.10 kuna in a turnover of 557,000 kuna on the news that it is acquiring a third hotel in Austria.
In lower turnover, shares of food and pharmaceuticals producer [ZSE:PODR] Podravka fell 0.33% to 606 kuna.
Printing and publishing company Vjesnik [ZSE:VJSN] and the Zagreb bourse [ZSE:ZB] were the biggest daily gainers on Friday with an increase of 81.19% and 10.38% in their share prices respectively. Vjesnik said on Friday it will propose to its shareholders to launch a liquidation procedure. The Zagreb bourse announced that it holds a 9.92% stake in its counterpart in North Macedonia, the Macedonian Stock Exchange (MSE), after it acquired on Friday a further 80 ordinary shares, representing 2.86% of its equity capital.
The bourse's total turnover declined to 7.3 million kuna from 8.2 million kuna on Thursday.
(1 euro = 7.518 Croatian kuna)