OMX Stockholm 30
The OMX Stockholm 30 ( OMXS30 ) is a Swedish stock index and is composed of the 30 most traded stocks on the Stockholm Stock Exchange OMX.
Calculation
The OMX Stockholm 30 is a price index, in which the 30 largest and most liquid stocks on the Stockholm Stock Exchange OMX listed. These account for 65 percent of trading volume and 45 percent of the market capitalization of all stocks traded on the OMX title. When calculating a limited measurement period is considered and the individual values are calculated in Swedish kronor. Base are the bid prices. The weighting is based on the market capitalization of the companies listed.
The Index will be determined solely on the basis of share prices and adjusted only to income from subscription rights and special. Corporate actions such as stock splits have no ( distorting ) influence on the index. The calculation is updated every second while the OMX trading from 9:00 bis 17:30 clock clock CET. A revision of the composition of the index is done twice a year, on the first trading day in January and July.
History
20th century
The OMX Stock Market Index ( OMX index) is calculated since September 30, 1986. The index base initially was 500 points. With effect from April 27, 1998, an index was split in a ratio of 4 to 1 Thus, the baseline value was set from 1986 to 125 points.
To 8 October 1987, the Swedish leading index rose to a closing level of the equivalent of 162.91 points. After Black Monday on October 19, 1987 at the New York Stock Exchange, the leading index of the Stockholm Stock Exchange accelerated its decline. On November 11, 1987, he graduated with 98.86 points at an all time low. The loss since October 8, 1987 is 39.3 percent.
In the following three years, the index was up 133.6 percent. On July 4, 1990, he ended trading at 230.93 points. During the recession of the early 1990s dropped the OMX index to 8 January 1991, closing at 138.25 points. The corresponding Since July 1990 a loss of 40.1 percent. After rising by 15 August 1991 to 202.83 points on the stock market barometer fell in the following 14 months by 39.5 percent. On 5 October 1992, the OMX index ended trading at 122.70 points.
On 23 January 1997 the benchmark index closed for the first time on the 500 -point mark. On July 20, 1998, the stock market barometer ended trading at 823.20 points. The gain since October 1992 is 570.9 percent. In the years 1997 and 1998 occurred in parts of the world financial, monetary and economic crises ( Asian crisis, the Russian crisis ). Due to the crisis, investors had become nervous in Sweden and there was an increased outflow of capital. On 8 October 1998 the OMX index closed at 498.64 points. The loss since July 1998 is 39.4 percent.
Over the next three years the stock index returned numerous records. On 17 November 1999 he finished trading for the first time above the limit of 1,000 points. On 7 March 2000, the Swedish blue-chip index closed at 1,539.00 points at an all time high. The gain since October 1998 is 208.6 percent.
21st Century
After the bursting of the speculative bubble in the technology sector ( dot-com bubble ), the index fell to a low of 432.36 points to 12 March 2003. That was a decline since March 2000 by 71.9 percent. It was the biggest downfall in the history of the index.
On 15 November 2004, the Stockholm Stock Exchange merged with the Helsinki Stock Exchange. In order to distinguish the key indices of both countries better, the Swedish OMX Stockholm 30 index and the Finnish HEX index was 25 renamed OMX Helsinki 25.
March 12, 2003 marks the end of the descent. From the spring of 2003, the OMX index began to rise again. Until 13 July 2007, he rose by 202.7 percent to a closing level of 1308.76 points. In the course of the international financial crisis in the U.S. real estate crisis originated in the summer of 2007, the OMXS30 began to fall again. On 10 January 2008, he graduated with 989.70 points below the 1,000 -point mark. A new low for the stock index posted on November 21, 2008, when he finished trading with 567.61 points. Since July 13, 2007, this represents a decrease of 56.6 percent.
The November 21, 2008 marked the turning point of the descent. From the autumn of 2008 the OMXS30 was back on the way up. Until 18 January 2011, he rose by 107.8 percent to a closing level of 1179.29 points. The slowdown in the global economy and the intensification of the euro crisis led to a fall in the index. On 22 September 2011, the OMX Stockholm 30 ended the day at 862.17 points. The loss since January 18, 2011 amounts to 26.9 percent.
The announcement of new bond purchase programs of the European Central Bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve in principle unlimited extent led to a recovery of prices in the stock market. The monetary stimulus played a greater role in price formation, as the global economic slowdown and the position of the company. On 4 January 2013, the index closed at 1136.77 points, up by 31.9 per cent as on September 22, 2011.
Highs
The overview shows the all-time highs of the OMX Stockholm 30
Milestones
The table shows the milestones of the OMX Stockholm 30
Annual development
The table shows the development of the OMX Stockholm 30 since 1986.
Composition
The OMX Stockholm 30 consists of the following companies together (as of 1 July 2010).