JSE Total Market Capital over time
Date: 20 August 2018
Category: Stock Market

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In this update we take a look at the latest JSE market statistics updated (for the week ending 17 August 2018). And we place particular emphasis on the total market capital of all shares listed on the JSE. Just how much are the companies listed on the JSE worth? We take a look below

Total worth of all shares listed on the JSE?

The line graph below shows the total Rand value or total JSE market capital for each week ending of listed shares on the JSE, as well as the total market cap of the JSE for the same week ending of the year before.
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Currently all shares listed on the JSE has a total market capital of R14.87 trillion. Thats right, all shares listed on the JSE is worth a combined R14.87 trillion. That is not small change. To put that into perspective South Africa's total economy (in current prices) is worth roughly R4.1trillion. So the total worth of shares listed on the JSE is worth roughly 3.5 times the total worth of South Africa's economy.

Lucky for investors the total market cap of the time period looked at in 2018, has not been lower than the same market cap measured for a year ago. in the majority of weeks we have looked at.  Although growth in market over the course of the last year has been slow. The summary below provides the year on year growth in the total JSE market capital for each week ending.
  • 26-Apr-18 :   3.27%
  • 04-May-18 :  1.13%
  • 11-May-18 :  1.34%
  • 18-May-18 :  0.86%
  • 25-May-18 :  0.64%
  • 01-Jun-18 :   2.98%
  • 08-Jun-18 :   6.00%
  • 15-Jun-18 :   8.88%
  • 22-Jun-18 :   7.63%
  • 29-Jun-18 :   8.29%
  • 06-Jul-18 :    6.29%
  • 13-Jul-18 :   1.68%
  • 20-Jul-18:    2.73%​​
  • 27-Jul-18: -1.46%
  • 3-Aug-18: -3.74%
  • 10- Aug-18: -0.88%
  • 17-Aug-18: 0.39%
The JSE total market capital is now 0.39% higher than what it was a year ago. Basically showing the market has gone absolutely nowhere in the last 12 months. And with the last week seeing the continued sell off in emerging markets such as Turkey and South Africa, we are pretty sure our updated on Monday 20 August, will show the current market conditions on the JSE is far worse than it was 12 months ago.

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