November 18 (SeeNews) - The blue-chip SOFIX index of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) declined by 0.67% to 604.52 points on Thursday, negatively influenced by a 4.80% drop in the share price of IoT products developer Allterco [BUL:A4L], bourse data showed.
As many as 3,923 shares in Allterco changed hands at an average price of 24.62 levs on the floor of the Sofia bourse on Thursday.
Allterco's loss dragged down the BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, and the BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight.
The BGBX40 erased 0.17% to 138.04 points, while the BGTR30 decreased by 0.26% to 663.37 points.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, edged up by 0.02% to 166.14 points on Thursday on the back of a 0.47% increase in the share price of Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF].
Total turnover on the BSE's main market went down to 1 million levs ($580,500/511,300 euro) on Thursday from 1.5 million levs on Wednesday.
The most traded company on Thursday was Toplofikatsia-Ruse [BUL:TPLR], the heating utility serving the city of Ruse. A total of 101,800 shares in the company traded 2.50% lower at an average price of levs, contributing 317,600 levs to the turnover for the day.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)