May 16 (SeeNews) - All but one of the indices of the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) finished Tuesday's trading session in green territory, with the blue-chip SOFIX index adding the most, 0.44% to 638.18 points, bourse data showed.
The leader among blue-chips was poultry producer Gradus [BUL:GR6], which rose 4.17% to 1.50 levs in a trading volume of 8,748.
IoT maker Allterco [BUL:A4L] gained 2.69% to 22.90 levs as 14,728 shares changed hands. Allterco reported a 54% annual jump in first-quarter sales and projected a mid-term revenue jump to 200 million euro in 2026, according to filings published after close of trading on Monday.
Drug maker Sopharma [BUL:SFA] paced the SOFIX decliners, losing 2.04% to 5.76 levs.
The gain in Gradus also pushed up both the BGBX40, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, and the BGTR30, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight.
The BGBX40 ticked up 0.22% to 143.99 points, its performance constrained by a 3.73% slump in software developer Sirma Group Holding [BUL:SGH] to 0.645 levs and a 3.72% drop in hardboard maker Fazerles [BUL:FZLS] to 18.10 levs.
For its part, the BGTR30 went up 0.17% to 733.58 points.
The BGREIT, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, was the only index to close in red territory, down 0.31% to 189.16 points. Both of its major consituents, Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:ATER] and Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF] lost ground, by 0.58% and 0.91% to 3.45 levs and 2.18 levs, respectively.
Allterco was also the day's most traded stock, contributing 337,271 ($187,410/172,443 euro) levs to the total main market turnover, which grew to 1.93 million levs on Tuesday from 925,999 levs on Monday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)