2025-08-27 17:30
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2025-08-27 17:30
The resistance broke and the WSE indexes dived on Wednesday, deepening the correction that has been ongoing for a week. WIG20 pulled down by Budimex, Orlen and the banking sector, fell to the lowest level from 1.5 months. Only one company stood out among the Blue Chips.
Wednesday's session brought a return of declines on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The WSE indexes deleted all Monday and Tuesday's increase, which did not allow to make up for the losses caused by the ministerial announcement of increased burden on banks.
WIG20 lost 1.75%, withdrawing to 2856.56 points – the lowest closing level from July 10. WIG withdrew by 1.54% to 106 857.65 points. MWIG40 lost 1.15%. SWIG80 gave 0.76%.
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Although declines dominated in Europe that day, the WSE indexes were distinguished by their scale. When the German trade ended in Warsaw by 0.61%, the French CAC40 gained 0.29%, and the American S & P500 and Nasdaq indexes recorded a small increase of 0.19%and 0.14%, respectively.
The value of turnover on the WSE amounted to PLN 1.63 billion, of which approx. PLN 1.41 billion concerned companies from the WIG20 index. The highest value of turnover focused on the shares of Orlen (PLN 301 million) and PKO BP (PLN 278 million) and Pekao (PLN 131 million).
In the WIG20 index, only Kruk stood out on Wednesday, whose shares gained 2.96%. The company presented the results for the second quarter of 2025, showing PLN 332.4 million net profit, which significantly exceeded PAP consensus at the level of PLN 284.9 million. In addition, Kruk announced that he was observing a strong supply of claims in July, and the risk of further write -offs in Spain significantly decreased.
The remaining 19 companies from the Blue Chip index were under the line, although Pepco papers (-0.40%) also recorded a slight increase for most of the session. The company announced that High Court in England (the High Court of England and Wales) approved the Poundland restructuring.
Budimex led declines in WIG20, whose shares were 4.24%. They also lost their CCC (-3.48%). The qualities of Orlen were discounted by 3.33% – the company announced on Wednesday about the dismissal of the Vice President of the Management Board of Financial Affairs Magdalena Bartoś and a member of the board Artur Osuchowski.
Blue chip index also lost the quotations of three of the largest Polish banks, headed by mBank (-3.64%). 1.93% reduced the Santander course. 1.87% was lost by Alior. Pekao and PKO BP withdrew 1.36% and 0.70%, respectively.
Among the average companies, the WP group stood out, whose shares were overestimated by 12.16%. The media group presented financial results with PLN 11 million net loss (compared to a profit of PLN 16.8 million in Q2 2024), which apparently did not appeal to shareholders.
MWIG40 also pulled down rainbow, discounted by 5.70%. The president of the company said in a conversation with PAP Biznes published on Wednesday that the tour operator assumes this year a high one -digit sales increase, an increase in the number of customers by approx. 10% and PLN 20 million in investments in a taken over the Romanian company.
Among the companies from the second series of WSE, ENEI (+0.65%) shares have grown the most on Wednesday, which showed quarterly results. The net profit of the dominant entity amounted to PLN 874 million (against PLN 655 ml expected by the market). Ebidt's consolidated profit reached PLN 1.45 billion.
Among the companies included in the SWIG80 inkdes, XTPL shares (+3.53%) gained the most on Wednesday. The company announced on Tuesday about the sale of a Delta Printing System to the manufacturer of automated industrial machines for automotive sectors and consumer electronics based in Spain.
