JAKARTA (Yosefardi) – Year to date, as of Wednesday (Dec 24), foreign net buy for local stocks reached Rp40.18 trillion. Last year, foreign investors booked net sell of Rp21 trillion.
On Wednesday last week, a day before celebrating Christmas, the foreign investors booked net sell of Rp2.79 trillion.
While composite index of the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) has gained 20.89% year to date to 5167, ranked 4th among the global indexes, behind China (+40.48%), India (+28.60%), and Philippines (+22.01%).
Last year, IDX closed at 4274.
The stocks movers during this year are Bank Rakyat Indonesia which has gained 60%, Telkom (+32.3%), Bank Mandiri (+36.3%), Bank Negara Indonesia (+55.7%), and Unilever (+21.3%).
While the laggard stocks are Indo Tambangraya which lost 45.3%, Trada Maritim (-84.4%), Inovisi (-77.6%), Bumi Resources (-76.3%), and Bank Internasional Indonesia (-32.1%).
Year to date, property-real estate-building construction stocks jumped 52.64%, infrastructure-utilities-transportation surged 24.3%, and finance gained 35.2%.
Agriculture stocks rose 5.73%, basic industry and chemicals gained 12.58%, consumer goods increased 19.79%, manufacturing hiked 14.19%, and trade-service-investment lifted 10.49%.
While mining stocks fell 4.52%. Last year mining stocks lost 23.3%.
In 2013, agriculture stocks gained 3.73%, consumer goods rose 13.8%, property-real estate-building increased 3.2%, and infrastructure-utilities-transportation stocks gained 2.52%. While finance stocks declined 1.77%.