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The stock market ended Sunday’s session flat with a variation in the performance of the leading stocks amid liquidity, which is the lowest in 9 and a half months.
The general index closed at 10228 points, while the circulated liquidity amounted to 4.79 billion riyals, and the liquidity comes through the circulation of 172.4 million shares, while the executed deals amounted to about 208.1 thousand transactions.
The shares of “National Bank of Saudi Arabia” came on the list of the most pressure on the movement of the general index after its decline by about 1.8 percent, as the share trades without entitlement to profits after the association announced its approval of distributing profits for the year 2020 by 0.8 riyals per share, with a total value of 3.58 billion riyals.
Shares of “Ground Services” rose by about 2.2 percent, as the company announced that it had reduced its losses for the first quarter to 16.7 million riyals, compared to about 51.5 million riyals for the same period of 2020.
The “Tawuniya” company also announced a slight decline in the first quarter profits before zakat to 80.8 million riyals, a decline of 5 percent, while the stock closed lower at the level of 77.6 riyals.
Shares of 104 companies rose during today’s session, led by Al-Jazira REIT units, which rose at the highest level, followed by SEDCO Capital REIT units with 5 percent gains.
Shares of REIT and Swicorp REIT units, as well as research and marketing shares, also rose within 4 percent.
This was offset by a decline in the shares of 80 companies issued by SACO shares by 3.8 percent, followed by shares of Zain Saudi Arabia, which fell 2.4 percent, after the company announced a decline in first-quarter profits by 61 percent to 41 million riyals.
Shares of SABIC, Al-Rajhi Bank and Riyad Bank also fell by 0.3 to 1 percent, while Jabal Omar shares rose 2.1 percent and about 1.4 percent for SABB.