PX Index

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The PX Index (until March 2006 the PX 50) is a capitalization-weighted index of major stocks that trade on the Prague Stock Exchange. Selected as the starting exchange day (a benchmark date) for the Index PX 50 was 5 April 1994 and its opening value was fixed at 1,000 points. At this time the index included 50 companies traded on the Prague Stock Exchange, accordingly, named PX 50.

In 2014 Prague Stock Exchange introduced

dividends.[1]

History

PX-50

After an initial boom encouraged by

September 11, 2001 attacks reached bottom on 17 September with 320 points. In 2002, the index slowly increased back to 500 points. In 2003 the index was rising and ended the year with 659 points. With the help of the Czech Republic European Union
accession, the index continued rising in 2004. It reached 1000 points on 19 November and ended the year with 1032 points. The index continued rising in 2005 and ended the year with 1473 points.

PX index

On 20 March 2006 the PX 50 index was merged with PX-D into the PX index. The index reached bottom on 13 June with 1167 points after

financial crisis
reached 700 points on 27 October 2008, losing 50% of its value in two months, second financial crisis-based bottom was reached on 18 February 2009 with 629 points.

year
max​
min
1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016[2] 2017[2] 2018[2] 2019[2] 2020[3]
1,245 587 582 629 517 526 691 515 479 659 1,032 1,478 1,626 1,936 1,808 1,195 1,315 1,275 1,041 1,066 1,046 1,058 954 1,087 1,140 1,119 1,142
541 387 438 459 316 333 410 320 388 460 662 1,051 1,167 1,565 700 629 1093 843 859 853 901 846 819 919 978 989 690


PX Index base

The components as of March 2020 are sorted by reduced market capitalization:[4]

Past

  • O2 C.R.
    (ISIN: CZ0009093209) - removed in 2022
  • CETV (ISIN: BMG200452024) - removed in 2020
  • UNIPETROL
    (ISIN: CZ0009091500) - removed in 2018
  • PLG [cs] (ISIN: CZ0005124420) - removed in 2016
  • NWR (ISIN: GB00B42CTW68) - removed in 2016
  • ORCO (ISIN: LU0122624777) - removed in 2014
  • TMR (ISIN: SK1120010287) - removed in 2014
  • AAA [cs] (ISIN: NL0006033375) - removed in 2013
  • KITD
    (ISIN: US4824702009) - removed in 2012
  • ECM (ISIN: LU0259919230) - removed in 2011
  • ZENTIVA (ISIN: NL0000405173) - removed in 2009

PX-TR

In March 2014 Prague Stock Exchange introduced new total return index PX-TR. The index shares same base as PX index, but unlike PX index take into account

dividends. As the starting exchange day (a benchmark date) was selected 20 March 2006, when PX-50 and PX-D were merged. Main aim of creation of PX-TR index was to promote above average dividend yield of Prague Stock Exchange.[1]

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