Maaal Weekly List: 69 investors in Saudi stock market earn SAR 13.8 billion in a week, a woman on top

The 100 largest individual investors in the Saudi stock market, whose ownership amounts to 5% or more, saw an increase in their ownership to SAR 142.8 billion at the end of the previous week. This represents a gain of SAR 13.259 billion, or 10.2%, compared to the previous week when their ownership was SAR 129.6 billion, according to Maaal monitoring.

Out of the 100 largest investors, those who made profits gained SAR 13.77 billion. These top investors control about 95.3% of the market value of the 232 individual investors in the market, with a market value of SAR 149.8 billion. The remaining 132 investors outside the top 100 list own only about SAR 7 billion in the stock market.

During the past week, the market value of the ownership of 69 major owners increased by about SAR 13.77 billion. Ghada Ahmed Mohamed Naghi and Fahd Abdulaziz Nasser bin Hasher topped the list after the market value of their ownership in Future Care Company increased to SAR 7.508 billion, with a value of SAR 4.885 billion each, up from SAR 2.622 billion the previous week.

Sulaiman Al Habib ranked second, with the market value of his ownership in Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Group increasing to SAR 38.6 billion, up from SAR 37.6 billion the previous week, as a result of the increase in the share of Al-Habib Company to SAR 275.4 riyals, a 2.64% increase over the previous week.

On the other hand, the market value of the ownership of 31 other investors decreased by about SAR 512 million during the past week. Fahad Thunayan Fahad Al-Thunayan led the list with the market value of his ownership in National Building and Marketing Co. declining to SAR 1.798 billion, with a value of SAR 107 million from the previous week, which was about SAR 1.906 billion. Suleiman bin Muhammad Al-Saif ranked second, as the market value of his ownership in ALSAIF GALLERY Company declined to SAR 2.205 billion after it was SAR 2.262 billion in the previous week.

In terms of market value, Sulaiman bin Abdulaziz Sulaiman Al-Habib was the largest individual investor in the stock market, with ownership worth SAR 38.6 billion at the close of Thursday, owning 40.03% of the shares of Dr. Sulaiman Al-Habib Group. Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal ranked second with a market value of SAR 22.9 billion, owning 78.13% of the Kingdom Holding shares. Ghada Ahmed Mohamed Naghi and Fahd Abdulaziz Nasser bin Hasher came in third with ownership of SAR 7.5 billion in Future Care.

Lastly, the Saudi Stock Market index closed the week at 11,516.14 points, up 119 points or 1.04% from the previous week.