GIELDA PAPIEROW WARTOSCIOWYCH WARSZAWIE : 5000th Session on the WSE
January 22, 2013 at 09:08 pm IST
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5000th Session on the WSE
Warsaw, 22 January 2013
5000th Session on the WSE
Press Release
5000th session takes place on the WSE on 22 January 2013.
22 years on since the creation of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, the number of companies listed on the Main Market has increased from 5 to 439 and the capitalisation of domestic companies from PLN 45 million to over PLN 537 billion.
The WIG index has increased by more than 50 times since the first session.
The first trading session on the WSE took place on 16 April 1991. On that day, five companies with a total capitalisation of PLN 45 million were newly listed, 112 buy and sell orders were placed, and the total value of trading was PLN 1,990 (US$ 2 thousand). The event initiated the growth of Poland's capital market.
Today, the Warsaw Stock Exchange operates and supervises trading on one of Europe's most dynamically growing capital markets. The WSE's Main Market lists 439 companies, including 43 foreign companies, with a total capitalisation of more than PLN 765 billion.* 22 years on since the creation of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, the capitalisation of domestic companies amounts to PLN 537.3 billion.* Since the first trading session, the WIG index has increased from 1 thousand points to 47.9 thousand points.*
* As at 21 January 2013
** As at 31 December 2012
The WSE's main indices peaked in 2007, the year of the highest number of IPOs on the Main Market. The session with the biggest trading in shares took place on 12 May 2010, when the value of trade was over PLN 3.3 billion, including PLN 2.5 billion in shares of the company PZU newly listed on that day. PZU remains the company whose shares generated the highest value of trading per session in the history of the WSE.
The WSE reported a record-high number of transactions in shares (138,234) on 9 August 2011; the session with the highest volume of trading in futures contracts (151,474) was on 17 March 2010; and the session with the highest volume of trading in options (19,372) on 4 August 2011.
The company which boasts the record-high annual return rate is Krosno: its share price grew by 2,411% in 1993. The biggest initial public offering in the history of the WSE was the IPO of PZU SA (newly listed on 12 May 2010) worth more than PLN 8 billion. The IPO with the biggest number of individual investors' subscriptions (830 thousand) was that of ING Bank
Gielda Papierow Wartosciowych w Warszawie SA (Warsaw Stock Exchange, GPW) is a Poland-based stock exchange. It is a parent entity of WSE Group that offers products and services within its trading markets of equity, derivate, fixed income and structured products. It also distributes market data. The Company has two business lines: Financial market, which includes trading in equities, derivatives, fixed-income and other instruments, listing, and information services; and Commodity market, which includes trading in electricity and property rights in certificates of origin, operation of a register of certificates of origin, clearing, trade and technical trade operator services. As of December 31, 2011, it operates two wholly owned subsidiaries, WSEInfoEngine SA, providing data transmission and information services; and Instytut Rynku Kapitalowego WSE Research SA, engaged in publishing; as well as 92.47%-owned BondSpot SA.
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