The activity indicators of companies listed on the Tunisian Stock Exchange for 2023 show an increase of 6.4% in total turnover compared to 2022, to reach 24.4 billion Tunisian dinars (MMDT), against 22.9 MMTD the previous year.
According to the Tunis Stock Exchange, 69% of companies having disclosed their indicators, or 50 out of 72, increased their cumulative turnover compared to the previous year.
The 20 companies that make up the Tunindex20 totaled 15.6 billion dinars (or 64% of total turnover), up 6.9% compared to the previous year.
The Tunis Stock Exchange announced that the cumulative net banking income (NBI) of the 12 listed banks increased by 8.3% to 6.711 billion dinars in 2023.
Likewise, the cumulative net rental income of the 7 listed leasing companies increased by 6.4% in 2023 compared to 2022, to reach 0.527 MMTD.
Regarding the activity of the 6 listed insurance companies, the total amount of premiums issued reached 1.386 billion dinars, up 6.1%.
The financial sector made up of 28 listed companies, achieved a total turnover of 8.655 billion dinars, compared to 8.023 billion dinars in 2022, showing an increase of 7.9%.
In the consumer goods sector, the total revenues of the three large groups active in the agri-food sector (Poulina Group Holding, Délice Holding, and SFBT) increased by 6.03% to 6.263 billion dinars.
In the consumer services sector, which brings together 12 listed companies, the cumulative turnover of the two listed distribution brands increased slightly by 8% to 1.796 billion dinars against 1.663 billion dinars.
Conversely, the turnover of the four automobile dealerships (excluding UADH) increased by 14.3% to 1.227 billion dinars as of December 31, 2023.
In total, 6 of the 9 sectors present on the market increased their turnover. Healthcare recorded the strongest growth of 36.3%, followed by consumer services with an increase of 9.1%. On the other hand, the basic materials sector fell by 23.7%.
Positive performances were distributed across 8 sub-sectors. The best performance was that of ‘Travel and Leisure’ with a gain of 16.4%, followed by ‘Retail’ with 9.1%, ‘Banking’ with 8.3% and ‘Financial Services’ with 7.2%.
The worst performing sub-sectors were chemicals and basic resources, with -31.3% and -18.1% respectively.
