September 30 (SeeNews) - Half of the four main Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) indices ended the week in green territory, with the blue-chip SOFIX climbing 0.32%% to 587.15 points on the back of gains in energy and insurance group Eurohold Bulgaria [BUL:EUBG] and First Investment Bank [BUL:FIB], or Fibank, bourse data showed.
Among the blue-chips, software company Sirma Group Holding [BUL:SGH] lost the most, 5.66% to 0.75 levs in a trading volume of 64,525 shares. Earlier in the day, Sirma Group called an extraordinary shareholder meeting and proposed to pay out a dividend of 0.015 levs per share for the first half of 2022.
Eurohold's rise as well as a 3.70% increase in poultry producer Gradus [BUL:GR6] to 1.40 levs helped the BGBX40 index, which tracks the bourse's 40 most traded shares, to go up 0.18% to 136.97 points.
The positive performance came despite an 8.82% tumble in Zarneni Hrani Bulgaria [BUL:ZHBG] to 0.155 levs with 7,822 shares traded.
The BGTR30 index, in which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, dropped 0.36% to 710.57 points, on the back of Sirma Group's loss and a 6.27% slump in Agria Group Holding [BUL:AGH] to 23.90 levs.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, was the other one to finish the trading week in decline, ticking down 0.49% to 178.28 points, as Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF] retreated 1.87% to 2.10 levs.
Sopharma [BUL:SFA] was the most liquid stock for the second day in a row. It generated turnover of 513,850 levs with as many as 114,180 shares bought and sold. Sopharma closed flat at 4.50 levs.
Total turnover on the BSE's main market increased to 1.94 million levs ($971,440/991,906 euro) from 980,497 levs on Thursday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)
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