9.2 billion dirhams in market gains for Dubai Financial since the beginning of January

The Dubai Financial Market strengthened its gains by adding about 9.2 billion dirhams to its market capitalization, from the beginning of trading in January 2025 until the end of trading yesterday (Friday – the seventh session of this month), supported by traders’ focus on leading stocks, with listed companies beginning to prepare for the start of the season. Annual disclosures, then announcing distribution plans to shareholders amid the emergence of positive expectations in this regard.

The market value of shares listed on the market rose from 906.905 billion dirhams, at the end of last December’s sessions, to 916.084 billion dirhams at the end of yesterday’s trading session, the last session of this week’s trading.

During the first seven sessions of January, the Dubai Financial Market Index rose 1.36%, equivalent to 70.32 points, to the level of 5228.32 points, up from the level of 5158 points. According to Dubai Financial data, the total amount of purchases from foreign investors’ transactions during the monitoring period amounted to about 638.11 million dirhams, after purchases worth 20 billion dirhams, and sales worth 19.36 billion dirhams.

The value of citizens’ sales of shares in the Dubai Financial Market amounted to about 18.94 billion dirhams, compared to purchases worth about 18.30 billion dirhams, so that the total amount was sales worth about 638.11 million dirhams.

Institutions also tended to purchases worth about 19.33 billion dirhams, compared to sales worth 18.803 billion dirhams, bringing the net institutional investment to about 523.47 million dirhams, the result of purchases.

The value of individual sales amounted to about 13.83 billion dirhams, compared to purchases of shares worth about 13.215 billion dirhams, bringing the total sales to about 614.734 million dirhams.

For his part, the financial advisor, Mahmoud Atta, said, “The Dubai Financial Market was able to reap gains from the beginning of last year until the end of the seventh session of New Year’s trading in 2025, in light of its success in attracting more local and foreign investors, amid the listed companies’ approval of larger cash dividends.” Among the markets of the region.

He added that one of the most prominent factors that enhanced the gains of local financial markets was the remarkable activity of non-oil sectors, such as real estate and services, in addition to the return on investment in the market reaching a high rate exceeding 7%.

He stressed that the Dubai market is still leading the rise in financial markets in the Gulf countries, with most of the major stocks at attractive profitability levels, compared to other Gulf financial markets.

He explained that one of the factors that contributed to Dubai Financial’s increase in the list of Gulf gains was the good results announced by listed companies for the third quarter of last year, pointing out that there are potential profit-taking operations that may occur in the local financial markets after the middle of this month. Due to the conversion of unrealized profits into realized profits for investment portfolios owned by listed companies, given the imminent close of the fiscal year as a whole.