February 22 (SeeNews) - Four of the five indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) closed higher on Thursday, with the blue-chip SOFIX climbing 0.62% to 784.84 points, bourse data showed.
SOFIX was buoyed by First Investment Bank, or Fibank, [BUL:FIB] and the Bulgarian Stock Exchange [BUL:BSE]. Fibank leapt 3.65% to 2.84 levs, while the BSE added 3.57% to 14.50 levs.
The two companies also spurred on the BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, pushing it up by 0.49% to 162.05 points. The index was additionally lifted by poultry producer Gradus [BUL:GR6], which gained 3.45% to 1.50 levs.
The BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, grew by 0.38% to 805.12 points, following the increases at the BSE and Gradus.
A 16.43% surge in Sopharma Buildings REIT [BUL:SFB] to 16.30 levs propelled the BGREIT. The index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, jumped by 1.22% to 191.44 points.
The BEAMX index, which tracks the most highly capitalised growth companies, posted the only decline of the day, shedding 0.54% to 96.82 points. It was mostly pressed by a 5.42% drop in venture capital fund Webit Investment Network [BUL:WIN] to 0.785 levs.
Total turnover on the main market of the BSE edged up to roughly 1.07 million levs ($593,255/547,080 euro) on Thursday from 1.01 million levs on Wednesday.
The day's top stock by turnover, generating 241,918 levs with 4,171 shares traded, was IoT products maker Shelly Group [BUL:SLYG]. The stock closed flat at 58.00 levs.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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