The total value of shares that were bought by non-Jordanian investors at the Amman Stock exchange (ASE) during May 2016 was JD42.1 million, representing 23% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD27.2 million. As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investments during May 2016 showed an increase by JD14.9 million, compared with an increase by JD7.1 million during the same month of 2015.
The total value of shares that were bought by non-Jordanian investors since the beginning of the year until the end of May 2016 was JD289.5 million, representing 27.4% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD145 million. As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investments showed an increase of JD144.5 million, compared to an increase by JD15.4 million for the same period of 2015.
Arab investors purchases since the beginning of the year until the end of May 2016 were JD267.7 million, or 92.4% of the overall purchases by non-Jordanian investors, while the value of non-Arab investors purchases amounted to JD21.9 million, constituting 7.6% of the total purchases. Arab investors sales amounted to JD118.7 million, 81.9% of non-Jordanian investors total sales, while the value of non-Arab investors sales amounted to JD26.3 million, representing 18.1% of the total sales by non-Jordanian investors.
Non-Jordanian inventors' ownership in companies listed at the ASE by end of May 2016 represented 48.9% of the total market value, 38.1% for Arab investors and 10.8% for non-Arab investors. At the sector level, the non-Jordanian ownership in the financial sector was 55.6%, in the services sector was 22.1%, and in the industrial sector was 49%.