September 26 (SeeNews) - Half of the four main Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) indices closed in green territory on Monday, with the blue-chip SOFIX gaining a modest 0.44% to 591.74 points on the back of gains in energy and insurance group Eurohold Bulgaria [BUL:EUBG] and diversified group Doverie United Holding [BUL:DUH], bourse data showed.
Eurohold jumped 6.00% to 2.12 levs with 2,100 shares traded. The group's subsidiaries Electrohold Sales and Electrodistribution Grid West, or EDG West, were delisted from the Bulgarian Stock Exchange on Friday following a decision of the financial regulator resulting from their majority owner Electrohold, Eurohold's energy arm, acquiring full ownership of the two companies.
Doverie was another blue-chip gainer, ticking up 2.53% to 7.30 levs with 3,640 shares bought and sold.
The BGBX40 index, which tracks the 40 most traded shares on the Sofia bourse, also ticked up, by 0.19% to 137.49 points, buoyed by Eurohold as well as a 5.38% rise in Agria Group Holding [BUL:AGH] to 27.40 levs in a trading volume of 2,944. Agria Group said on Monday that it will repurchase 50,000 own shares, starting from September 27.
The BGTR30 index, under which companies with a free float of at least 10% have equal weight, inched down 0.10% to 714.69 points, unaffected by Agria's rise and a 4.90% climb in battery maker Monbat [BUL:MONB] to 5.35 levs.
BGTR30 constituents which registered losses on Monday were Bulgarian Real Estate Fund REIT [BUL:BREF], down 3.60% to 2.14 levs, and Industrial Holding Bulgaria [BUL:IHB] which lost 3.23% to 1.80 levs.
The BGREIT index, which tracks seven real estate investment trusts, retracted the most, by 1.04% to 178.57 points, due to both the slip in Bulgarian Real Estate Fund and a 1.72% decrease in Advance Terrafund REIT [BUL:ATER] to 2.85 levs.
Sopharma Trading [BUL:SFT] was the most liquid stock, with as many as 144,132 shares bought and sold and generating a turnover of 807,139 levs.
Total turnover on the BSE's main market slipped to roughly 1.55 million levs ($765,050/792,500 million euro) on Monday from 1.96 million levs on Friday.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)