May 3 (SeeNews) - The blue-chip indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) continued on a downward path and turnover shrank further on Tuesday, with shipyard Brodogradiliste Viktor Lenac [ZSE:VLEN] shining, bourse data showed.
The 23-share blue-chip index, the CROBEX, ended at 2,122.23%, down 0.24%. The narrower CROBEX10 which tracks the top ten companies in terms of free float, market capitalisation and liquidity, lost 0.46% to end at 1,270.70 points.
Shares of Viktor Lenac added 3.62% to end at 14.30 kuna in a turnover of 505,000 kuna, following a surge of 4.55% on Monday. Late on Friday, the company announced that its net profit soared to 26.2 million kuna in the first quarter of 2022, from 2.8 million kuna in the same period of last year.
Hrvatski Telekom [ZSE:HT] was the most traded share with a turnover of 3.4 million kuna ($474,000/450,000 euro). Its share price closed flat at 191.50 kuna.
Software developer Span [ZSE:SPAN] ranked second by turnover with 1.3 million kuna. Its share appreciated 2.90% after the company said it will propose to its shareholders to distribute a dividend of 5 kuna per share from the profit reported for 2021, the first dividend payment since the company's listing on the Zagreb bourse last year.
No other share passed the mark of one million kuna in turnover.
The ZSE's total trading turnover dropped to 8.7 million kuna from 10.2 million kuna on Monday.
(1 euro = 7.555 Croatian kuna)