100 stocks make up 94% of RASDAQ market traded volume

Autor: Andrei Chirileasa 05.11.2010

On the RASDAQ market, there are currently around 1,340 listed companies, but 94% of the market transactions involved 100 stocks in the first ten months of the year.
The overall value of RASDAQ transactions was 565 million RON between January and October, with the trading volume of the top 100 most liquid companies amounting to 532 million RON. Out of the 100 top companies, less than half were involved in at least one transaction per day on average, with the rest being traded only occasionally.
Many companies made it into the ranking thanks to a single transaction, which led to significant shareholding changes. They include almost unknown companies such as Concordia A4 (COLI) and Toneli Nutrition Titu (COTU), which were the target of major transactions this year.
These transactions show that the RASDAQ market has a stock of as yet undiscovered companies, but which could at one point be the target of major transactions, and which the Stock Exchange risks losing unless it clarifies the status of this market soon.
On the other hand, investors' interest in the RASDAQ market has faded significantly in the last two years, with the market going from transactions of over 1 billion euros in 2007 to 135 million euros in the first ten months of this year.