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Al-Quds Index increases amid growing anticipation among investors

2026-02-05

 Sahem weekly trading report (01-05)-02-2026

With the start of February and the expectations’ variation among investors regarding the listed companies’ profits of the year 2025 and their recommendations regarding distributing dividends for the investors, Al-Quds Index closed at the level of 631.88 points, recording gains of 0.28% than the previous week.  On the other hand, Palestine Stock Exchange PEX lacked any trading momentum and witnessed absence of executing institutional transactions that may increase the trading value in the market from time to time. However, the anticipation increases coinciding with the approaching end of the legal period granted by the PEX to the listed companies to disclose their preliminary annual financial data on February 15th. Whereby, the following week is expected to witness a momentum in this regard. On another hand, the listed companies started to raise their recommendations to distribute dividends for the shareholders for the year 2025.

Regarding the significant news of this week, the board of directors of Global United Insurance Company GUI proposed to the general assembly, which will be holding a meeting in the first week of April 2026, raising the paid-up capital from $13.80 million to $15.00 million through distributing 8.70% stocks dividends for the shareholders for the year 2025. It also proposed distributing 5% cash dividends for the year 2025, to record dividends yield of 2.94% based on the current market price. 

Regarding the economic indicators and according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics PCBS, the overall Producer Price Index PPI in Palestine with its base year (2019) reached 199.93 in 2025, which indicates a sharp increase by 32.90% compared to 2024. Prices of PPI for 2025 sharply increased due to the increase in the prices of goods and services in the following major activities: agriculture, forestry and fishing activities by 59.25%, manufacturing activities by 12.18%, and electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply activities by 4.18%. While, water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities decreased by 0.80%, and mining and quarrying activities slightly decreased by 0.07% in 2025 compared to 2024. It is good to note that the prices of locally consumed products sharply increased by 35.22% and the prices of local exported products increased by 3.89%.