With 2.27% profits closed the stock market market Last week, with the market recording a new high of 14.5 years, while March is closing against the “tradition” that wants a negative month in the current month. At the same time Athens Stock Exchange It is located in the top positions in the world market ranking in the first quarter of 2025.
Specifically, the Athens Stock Exchange takes third place in performance, after the Russian and Polish stock market. At the same time, total market capitalization from the beginning of this year has increased over 18 billion euros, while the year is running with average daily transactions of 171m euros increased by 22.9% compared to last year.
In recent weeks, the market has been running with a key catalyst to upgrade the market to developed and looking into the future, the possible upgrading of the ASE to a developed market could be transformative.
Upgrading from Moody΄s, it can also lead the FTSE to open the Athens Stock Exchange’s path to developed markets.
On April 8, the FTSE will be briefed on the possible movement of Greece to developed markets from emerging markets.
This development is expected to occur after 8 years in the category of emerging markets, and confirms the progress that has been made in the critical figures of both our market and Greek listed companies. The high profitability of listed companies supports shares’ valuations.
The durability of corporate profitability, which is reflected in high dividend yields, often exceeding the corresponding European like companies, further enhances the attractiveness of the Greek market.
To date, the listed ones have distributed dividends of € 3.8 billion, exceeding the performance of 2023 (2.95 billion), while € 4.2 billion was distributed last year. This is supportive as, on the one hand it improves market attractiveness, on the other hand, they limit pressures to liquids as they reinveit.
The General Price Index closed a week at 1,735.68 points, compared to 1,697.11 of the previous week, with a weekly rise in 2.27%, from early March rose 7.95%, while earnings 18.10%since the beginning of the year.
The FTSE/ASE 25 high capitalization index closed a week with a rise of 2.54% and has made a profit of 20.33% since the beginning of 2025.
The FTSE MID mid -capitalization index closed with a weekly rise of 3.33%, and since the beginning of the year it rose 13.01%. At the same time, the bank index closed a week with a rose 1.21%, while in early 2025 it has earned 29.47%.
The total value of transactions at this week’s meetings amounted to EUR 1,021,873 million, while the average daily transaction value stood at EUR 255,468 million, from 282,347 million euros last week.
The total market capitalization in the week increased by EUR 2,149 billion and stood at € 120,543 billion, while by the beginning of the year it increased by € 17,398 billion.
Source: RES-EIA