The capitalization of the Algiers Stock Exchange reached 745.4 billion dinars (about 5.73 billion USD) at the end of June 2025, against about 520 billion dinars at the beginning of January, thus showing an increase of 43% in the first half of the current year, according to data published on Tuesday, August 5 by the Commission for the Organization and Supervision of Stock Exchange Operations (Cososo.com). B).

The total volume traded on the Algiers stock market during the first six months of the current year reached over 2 million shares, compared to 655,600 shares in the first half of the previous fiscal year, an increase of more than 232% between the two comparison periods. In terms of changes in the volume of registered stock market orders, i.e. requests to buy and offers to sell securities (shares), the COSOB balance sheet also shows a clear increase in the first half of the current year, compared to the same period in 2024, the overall volume of validated buy orders thus jumped by 246%, while the number of sell orders increased by more than

Also, the total value traded, i.e. the total amount of transactions validated during the half-year in question, reached more than 4.5 billion dinars, against more than 1.35 billion dinars in the same period of 2024, or a more than notable growth, estimated at nearly 236%. Although still modest, especially considering the size and financing needs of the national economy, the overall capitalization level of the Algiers stock market now stands at more than 745 billion dinars at the end of the first half of the current fiscal year, according to the COSOB Newsletter. An essential indicator of its size and its contribution to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the level of capitalization of the Algiers stock market, which represents the total value of the shares traded there, was especially boosted by the recent listing of BDL, after registering a first unprecedented jump at the beginning of the last year by climbing, at once, by barely some 70 billion dinars to more than 500 billion dinars, with the listing on the stock market of the first major public bank, namely Crédit Popelle d'Algérie (CPA

In total, the main market of the Algiers Stock Exchange currently has six shares in the capital of listed companies, including 4 public, namely Saidal, El Aurassi, Saidal, El Aurassi, the CPA and the BDL, and 2 private ones, in this case Biopharm and Alliance Assurances. In addition, there are two other companies admitted to listing in the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) compartment, namely AOM Invest and Moustachir SPA. Despite the new impetus and the new dynamic induced since the last year by the arrival of the two major public banking institutions, the CPA and the BDL, the Algiers stock market, it should be emphasized, is still lacking in terms of the number of listed shares, the volume of transactions traded and the level of overall capitalization