April 30 (SeeNews) - The main equity indices of the Zagreb Stock Exchange ended mixed on Friday, as losses in software developer Span [ZSE:SPAN] offset gains in electrical concern Koncar Elektroindustrija [ZSE:KOEI], bourse data showed.
The 21-share benchmark, the CROBEX, added 0.19% to close at 2,806.29 points.
The narrower equity index CROBEX10, which tracks the top ten issuers in terms of free float, market capitalisation and liquidity, dipped 0.03% to 1,701.99 points.
Blue chip Koncar Elektroindustrija was the most traded company with a turnover of 229,000 euro ($245,000), as its shares rose 0.75% to 268 euro. On Monday, it announced that its net profit for the first quarter almost tripled on the year.
Preferred shares of its subsidiary, power transformer manufacturer Koncar D&ST [ZSE:KODT2] ranked second by turnover with 210,000 euro. They rose 0.66% to 1,520 euro. Koncar D&ST’s preferred shares are not part of the main equity indices. Last week, Koncar D&ST said its consolidated net profit soared 273% on the year in the first quarter of 2024.
Shares of Span dropped 7.40% to 41.30 euro in a turnover of some 184,000 euro on the news that its management proposed a dividend of 0.30 euro per share for 2023, after it paid a divided of 1.33 euro per share last year.
The biggest daily gainer were the shares of the Zagreb Stock Exchange [ZSE:ZB]. They soared 12.71% to 2.66 euro in a turnover of 642 shares on the news that the bourse will propose to distribute to its shareholders a dividend of 0.05 euro per share.
The total bourse turnover reached 1.6 million euro from 979,200 euro a day earlier.
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