SectionEgypt overview
Egypt stock market (EGX)
The Egyptian Exchange at a glance: the EGX30 benchmark, Egypt's biggest listed companies and the news moving them. Prices are delayed.
Session of Monday, 12 October 2026
51,613.92▲ 38.08%
since 12 October 2025
Today's movers
| AJWA for Food Industries company EgyptAJWA | 212.00 | +6.24% |
| Marsa Marsa Alam For Tourism DevelopmentMMAT | 4.95 | +4.87% |
| Alexandria Containers and goodsALCN | 34.30 | +3.63% |
| Suez Canal Bank S.A.ECANA | 44.00 | +2.28% |
| Future Care for Medical Industries - FCMIFCMD | 7.71 | +1.31% |
Egypt's biggest stocks
Showing 30 of 220 · busiest by traded value first
Prices are end-of-day closes from the Egyptian Exchange, in Egyptian pounds. See every company in the Egyptian stocks directory or compare the EGX indices.
How the Egyptian Exchange works
The Egyptian Exchange (EGX) is one of the oldest stock markets in the Middle East: exchanges opened in Alexandria in 1883 and in Cairo in 1903. Today it lists more than 200 companies on its main market, from banks and property developers to fertiliser makers, food producers and technology firms.
Trading runs from Sunday to Thursday, with the main session between 10:00 and 14:30 Cairo time. Shares are priced in Egyptian pounds (EGP), and the market is supervised by the Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA).
The indices to know
The EGX30 is the benchmark. It tracks the 30 largest and most actively traded companies, weighted by the value of shares freely available to trade, so heavyweights such as Commercial International Bank move it most. The equal-weighted EGX70 EWI and EGX100 EWI give a better read on mid-sized and smaller companies. Compare the indices.
What moves Egyptian stocks
The pound is the single biggest factor. When the currency weakens, investors often buy shares of exporters and companies with foreign-currency revenue, and property developers, as a hedge against inflation. Interest-rate decisions by the Central Bank of Egypt, IMF programme reviews, Gulf investment deals and the flow of foreign portfolio money into Egyptian treasury bills all feed through to the stock market.
Egypt and North Africa news
Saturday, 10 October 2026
- AnalysisWhy Morocco is accelerating its push for private investment
King Mohammed VI has called for a new wave of reforms to shift the economy toward private-sector leadership and high-value manufacturing.
Sunday, 27 September 2026
- NewsLibyan Revolutionary Forces Celebrate Gains as Fierce Fighting Rages in Gadhafi's Hometown
The battle for Sirte in 2011 was the last major fight of Libya's revolution. It ended with Muammar Gadhafi's death, and left a city in ruins and a country without a plan.
- NewsFrance Sent Weapons to Libyan Civilians Under Siege by Gadhafi's Forces
In June 2011 France acknowledged airdropping weapons to rebels in Libya's western mountains, raising questions about the limits of the UN mandate.
Saturday, 26 September 2026
- NewsWho Killed Gadhafi? Conflicting Stories Emerge
Muammar Gadhafi was captured alive near Sirte on 20 October 2011 and died within hours. How he died became the subject of competing accounts.
- AnalysisGadhafi Goes: 'Strongman' or 'Madman'? How the World Portrayed His End
Western media called him a madman; others remembered an anti-colonial strongman. The way the world described Gadhafi's fall said as much about the observers as about Libya.