Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) revealed that the value of shares bought by non-Jordanian investors at the ASE in January 2022 was JD11.2 million, representing 9.4% of the overall trading value, while the value of shares sold by them amounted to JD16.2 million. As a result, the net of non-Jordanian investments in January 2022 showed a negative value of JD5.0 million, whereas the net of non-Jordanian investments showed a negative value of JD1.7 million during the same month of 2021.
Arab investors purchases during January 2022 were JD10.4 million, or 92.8% of the overall purchases by non-Jordanians, while the value of non-Arab purchases amounted to JD0.8 million, constituting 7.2% of the overall purchases by non-Jordanians. Arab investors sales amounted to JD11.2 million, or 68.9% of non-Jordanians total sales, while the value of non-Arab sales amounted to JD5.0 million, representing 31.1% of the total sales by non-Jordanians. As a result, the net of Arab investments showed a negative value of JD0.8 million, whereas the net of non-Arab investments showed a negative value of JD4.2 million in January 2022.
Hence, non-Jordanian investors' ownership in companies listed on ASE as of end of January 2022 represented 48.1% of the total market value, of which 4.7% for government, 37.2% for institutional investors including companies, institutions and funds, 6.2% for individuals and 0.04% for other categories. Arab investors own 33.8% and non-Arab investors own14.3%. At the sectoral level, the non-Jordanian ownership in the financial sector was 52.2%, in the services sector was 20.9% and 53.7% in the industrial sector.