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Al-Quds Index in the red zone amid lack of liquidity

2026-03-18

 Sahem weekly trading report (15-18)-03-2026

In this week with four trading sessions, Al-Quds Index closed in the red zone after trading in a relatively narrow price range compared to the previous week. This mainly resulted from a decline in the prices of the leading stocks with heaviest weights and effects on Al-Quds Index, coinciding with the control of several circumstances and anticipations in Palestine Stock Exchange PEX; the war in Palestine, the end of the Holy month of Ramdan, the anticipation of the financial data disclosures for Q1 2026 and the dividends distribution for 2025 anticipation. While the normal trading was characterized with scarcity and lack of any trading momentum, in addition to the absence of the institutional transactions that may raise the trading value in the PEX from time to time.

Regarding the continuation to raise the recommendation regarding distributing dividends for the shareholders for the year 2025, the board of directors of Palestine Poultry Company AZIZA proposed to the general assembly, which will be holding a meeting in the second half of April 2026, distributing 25% cash dividends for the year 2025. However, in the banking and financial services sector, the board of directors of Bank of Palestine BOP proposed to the general assembly, which will be holding a meeting on 08/04/2026, distributing 4% cash dividends for the shareholders for the year 2025. It also proposed distributing 4% stocks dividends for the year 2025, to raise the paid-up capital from $268.79 million to $279.54 million. 

By the end of this trading day, 10 out of the 47 companies listed on the PEX raised their recommendations to distribute dividends for the shareholders for the year 2025. 8 of these companies recommended distributing cash dividends only, while two recommended distributing both cash and stocks dividends. In other context, 5 companies in the insurance sector, 4 in the industrial sector, and one in the banking and financial services sector recommended dividend distributions to the shareholders for 2025.