Muscat Stock Exchange trades exceed 5 billion Omani riyals in 2025
Muscat, January 3, 2025 – The Muscat Stock Exchange recorded record trades in 2025, exceeding 5 billion Omani riyals, benefiting from the desire of local investment funds and institutions to buy, at a time when public joint-stock companies listed on the stock exchange announced a number of positive transformations and increased financial performance.
According to the Oman News Agency, the value of trading last year increased to 5 billion and 42 million Omani riyals, compared to 1 billion and 257 million Omani riyals in 2024 and 1 billion and 132 million Omani riyals in 2023. The trading witnessed by the Muscat Stock Exchange last year exceeds the trading value witnessed by the stock exchange in the past five years since 2020, which amounted to 4.5 billion riyals.
The Muscat Stock Exchange began trading in 2025 with trading levels at 75.3 million riyals in January, but by July trading jumped to 467.8 million riyals, then rose to 524.8 million riyals, and October recorded the best trading value at 1 billion and 74 million riyals, and trading value in the first half of last year reached 917.2 million Omani riyals, but it jumped in the second half of the year to 4 billion and 125 million riyals. With the increase in purchases by funds and local investment institutions, and liquidity providers pumping more liquidity into trades.
Last year, the Muscat Stock Exchange witnessed an increase in the total number of securities traded, which include: stocks, bonds, sukuk, units, and preference rights, to 25.3 billion securities, compared to 6.5 billion securities in 2024, and the number of executed transactions increased from 257 thousand transactions to more than 672 thousand transactions.
The market value of securities listed on the Muscat Stock Exchange in 2025 recorded an increase of about 16 percent, exceeding 32 billion Omani riyals, compared to about 27.6 billion Omani riyals in 2024.
At the level of indicators, the main index of the Muscat Stock Exchange recorded an increase of 28.2 percent, closing at 5,866 points, recording an increase of 1,290 points. The sectoral indicators witnessed positive performance, with the industrial sector index rising by more than 2,575 points, concluding trading in 2025 at 7,846 points. The financial sector index rose by 2,183 points and closed at 9,908 points, and the services sector index rose to 2,405 points, recording An increase of 662 points, and the Sharia index rose 100 points and closed at 525 points.
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