The total value of shares bought by non-Jordanian investors during August 2014 was JD22.2 million, representing 18.2% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD16.8million. Thus, the net of non-Jordanian investments during August 2014 showed an increase of JD5.4 million.
The total value of shares that were bought by non-Jordanian investors since the beginning of the year until the end of August 2014 was JD238.1million, representing 15.4% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD266.3 million. As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investments showed a decrease of JD28.2million, compared to an increase of JD120.6 million for the same period of 2013.
As for the value of total purchases of non-Jordanian investors, the value of the Arab investors purchases since the beginning of the year until the end of August 2014 were JD169.2 million, or 71.1% of the overall purchases by non-Jordanians, while the value of non-Arab purchases amounted to JD68.9 million, constituting 28.9% of the total purchases. As for the value of total sales of non-Jordanian investors, the value of the Arab investors sales amounted to JD164.3 million, 61.7% of non-Jordanians total sales, while the value of non-Arab sales amounted to JD102million, representing 38.3% of the total sales by non-Jordanians.
Non-Jordanian ownership in companies listed at the ASE by the end of August 2014 represented 49.1% of the total market value, 36.2% for Arab investors and 12.9% for non-Arab investors.
At the sector level, the non-Jordanian ownership in the market capitalization of listed companies at the end of August reached 54.8% for the Financial sector, 26.9% for the Services sector, and 51.0% for the Industrial sector.