September 1 (SeeNews) - All but one of the indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) closed in green territory on Thursday, with gains in Eurohold Bulgaria [BUL:EUBG] and Sopharma Trading [BUL:SFT] driving a 0.56% increase in the blue-chip SOFIX index to 615.79 points.
Eurohold went up 4.81% to 2.18 levs, while pharmaceutical retailer Sopharma Trading advanced 3.92% to 5.30 levs, after announcing a 22% jump in sales for the first seven months of 2022 to 18.6 million levs ($9.4 million/9.5 million euro).
Sopharma Trading was also the most traded stock on Wednesday, generating turnover of roughly 2.2 million levs with as many as 414,439 shares changing hands.
Total turnover on the Sofia bourse's main market jumped to roughly 2.4 million levs on Thursday from 569,560 levs on Wednesday.
The performance of Sopharma Trading, coupled with a 5.66% climb in parcel delivery company Speedy [BUL:SPDY] to 112.00 levs, helped push the wider BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia stock exchange, 0.92% higher to 142.52 points.
The BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, advanced 0.44% to 738.56 points, further boosted by a 7.51% rise in Stara Planina Hold [BUL:SPH] to 9.30 levs.
The BGREIT, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, was the only index to finish the trading session in decline, dropping 0.17% to 183.27 points. Its weak performance was largely due to a 0.84% slip in Bulgarian Real Estate Fund [BUL:BREF], which closed at 2.36 levs on Thursday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)