The exchange’s preliminary operating profit in 2013 was at RON8.4 million, more than double compared with RON4.1 million a year earlier, on higher sales.
Preliminary sales revenues were at RON24.3 million in 2013, up 39.5% from RON17.4 million a year before. The growth was due to 14% higher trading revenues on the main market, excepting public offers, and a 388% increase in revenues from public offers.
Last year, state-run energy companies Romgaz (SNG.RO) and Nuclearelectrica (SNN.RO) were listed on the Bucharest market, while the Romanian government sold an additional stake in gas pipeline operator Transgaz (TGN.RO).
“Investors’ increasing participation in the local market determined a 26.1% advance for the main blue-chip index BET, a 4-year high and the 15th performance in the world,” the bourse said in its preliminary financial report.
At the end of 2013, the market operator had assets worth RON104.7 million, up 6.9% from RON98 million in 2012. (EUR1=RON4.4754)