Market Capitalisation in the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) reached $534.3 million at the end of the first quarter of this year – up some 21 per cent from the fourth quarter of last year – said a CSX press release on Friday.

The market capitalisation value of the Cambodian stock market in the fourth quarter of last year was $442.92 million, the release shows.

The press release said during the same period the CSX Index rose from 480.98 points in the fourth quarter of last year to 580.21 points at March 29’s close.

It said the share prices of five listed companies also showed positive results in the first quarter of this year compared to last year – PWSA rose by 31.43 per cent, PAS increased 23.8 per cent, PPAP surged 23.7 per cent and GTI rose four per cent, while the price of PPSP remained stable.

The daily average of trading volume in the first quarter of this year reached 67,311 shares per day, which is four times the volume of last year at only 16,229 shares.

The daily average trading value has nearly doubled from about $26,719 a day last year to around $52,816 in the first quarter of this year.http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/csx-market-value-534m