The annual trading volume of Vienna Insurance Group shares on the Vienna Stock Exchange increased significantly over the previous year, reaching around 43.0 million shares to set a new record high of EUR 1.7 billion in 2008. This corresponds to an average daily volume of around 172,000 shares or EUR 7.1 million with single counting. The share had a weighting of 6.6% in the ATX leading index as of 31 January 2009.
Trading volume did not fulfil expectations in the first year of listing in Prague. The main reason was low demand by emerging market funds due to the tense economic environment, which was also not fully offset by increased retail demand. The liquidity of the shares rose as high as 10% of total daily volume on both stock exchanges. The shares of the Vienna Insurance Group are included in the PX leading index of the Prague Stock Exchange.
Compare to 2007