The MASI.20, an index bringing together the 20 most liquid stocks, gained 0.68% to 1,024.8 pts and the MASI.ESG, an index of companies with the best ESG rating, as published by Moody’s ESG Solutions, has increased by 0.88% to 930.39 pts.
The MASI Mid and Small Cap, the thematic index which calculates the price performance of small and medium-sized companies listed on the Casablanca Stock Exchange, dropped 0.1% to 1,093.81 pts.
On the international side, the FTSE CSE Morocco 15 and the FTSE CSE Morocco All-Liquid gained, respectively, 0.79% to 11,624.56 pts and 0.7% to 10,560.71 pts.
Sectorally, the pharmaceutical industry index recorded the strongest increase (+3.44%), ahead of the beverage index (+2.35%), and engineering and construction goods. industrial equipment (+1.65%).
On the other hand, the chemicals sector showed the largest decline (-2.48%), followed by the agri-food and production sector (-1.48%) and the mining sector (-1.06%).
The overall volume of trade amounted to 348.41 million dirhams (MDH) carried out mainly on the Central market (Shares), and dominated by transactions involving Attijariwafa Bank (109.61 MDH), BCP (87.3 MDH) and Label Vie (46.83 MDH).
The market capitalization exceeded 650.5 billion dirhams (billion dirhams).
In terms of values, the largest increases were posted by Jet Contractors (8.83% to 343.9 DH), CDM (5.99% to 874.4 DH), Agma (5.98% to 7,300 DH), Disty Technologies (4.79% at 217.8 DH) and Stroc Industries (4.21% at 29.18 DH).
On the other hand, Maghreb Oxygène (-5.98% to 206.85 DH), Créations Mécaniques (-5.36% to 106 DH), Maghrebail (-4.43% to 950 DH), Minière Touissit (-4 .02% to 1,530 DH) and Lesieur Cristal (-3.96% to 267 DH) accused the greater declines.