According to FiinPro Platform, as of November 1, 2019, 832 companies listing shares on three bourses, which account for 95 percent of the capitalization value of the total market had released Q3 finance report.

Of these, 85 percent of businesses (706) reported profit and 15.1 percent of businesses (126) had obtained profit it planned to gain in 2019.

The 832 listed companies reported total net profit of VND73.6 trillion, an increase of 22.8 percent over the same period last year. Of this, the banking sector alone earned VND22.8 trillion, which amounted to 31 percent of total profit. If not counting the banking sector, the market growth rate would be 14.9 percent compared with Q3 2018.

The average ROE (return on equity) and ROA (return on assets) of enterprises in the last quarter were 14 percent and 2.7 percent, respectively, lower than the 14.9 percent and 4.26 percent of the same period last year.

The business results of listed companies in the first nine months of the year were fairly positive. But the unpredictability of the negotiations related to the US-China trade still exists.

Telecom, insurance and banking are business fields which saw the highest net profit growth rate, by 355.4 percent, 49.3 percent and 45 percent, respectively. Meanwhile, media, chemicals, oil and gas saw the sharpest decreases in profit, by 97.3 percent, 35 percent and 28.5 percent, respectively.

The banking sector leads the market. In Q3 2019, it earned VND22.8 trillion, up by 45 percent.

Vietcombank (VCB) alone earned VND5 trillion, an increase of 72 percent, followed by Techcombank and Vietinbank, which earned VND2.6 trillion and VND2.5 trillion, respectively.

With the results, the profit growth rate of the banking sector soared from a low of 11.8 percent in Q4 2018 to 45 percent in Q3 2019.

The real estate sector had net profit of VND11 trillion in Q3 2019, an increase of 19.7 percent compared with the VND9 trillion of the same period last year, which made up 15 percent of total profit.

The telecom sector had growth rate 3.5 times higher than the last year. The profit mostly came from FOX (VND340 billion, which accounted for 81.3 percent of the sector’s total net profit. Meanwhile, VGI earned VND59 billion after taking loss in Q3 2018. However, the total net profit of the telecom sector only made up 0.6 percent of total profit of the market.

Since the beginning of November, VN Index has been fluctuating heavily, with trading sessions with big increases and decreases. After unexpectedly soaring to above 1,000 points, the VN Index later decreased sharply, coming closer to the 970 point threshold.

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