UAE Stock Markets Hit 9 Billion Dirhams in Weekly Trading as Emaar Leads

Emaar Properties drove the week’s most striking single-stock story, with 904.97 million dirhams changing hands in its shares alone across the UAE’s two main exchanges.

Trading across the Abu Dhabi Securities Market and the Dubai Financial Market generated 8.98 billion dirhams in combined weekly liquidity. Abu Dhabi led, contributing 5.87 billion dirhams to that total. Dubai added 3.11 billion dirhams. Together, the two venues processed 2.55 billion shares across 180,696 separate transactions.

The scale of what sits behind those numbers is considerable. Combined market capitalization across both exchanges reached approximately 3.9 trillion dirhams. Abu Dhabi held the larger share at 2.92 trillion dirhams, while Dubai’s listed companies represented 981.69 billion dirhams in aggregate value. The Dubai Financial Market index closed the week at 5,885.64 points; Abu Dhabi’s index settled at 10,047.21 points.

Sector patterns in Dubai were hard to miss. Real estate commanded 36.16 percent of total trading value on the Dubai Financial Market, equivalent to 1.12 billion dirhams. Emaar Properties sat at the center of that activity. Banking sector shares generated 501.28 million dirhams in trading, while industrial sector shares produced 418.89 million dirhams.

Citizen investors in Dubai came in as net buyers. They placed purchases worth 1.38 billion dirhams against sales of 1.13 billion dirhams, leaving a net buying position of 253.69 million dirhams. That buying pressure also showed up in block transactions: the Dubai Financial Market executed 28 significant direct deals involving four companies, with a combined value of 590.61 million dirhams.

Meanwhile, Abu Dhabi told a similar story. Citizen investors there recorded net buying of 271.53 million dirhams, purchasing shares worth 3.27 billion dirhams while selling 2.99 billion dirhams. Three large direct deals occurred during the week, involving 92.39 million shares across Homes, Abu Dhabi Ports, and Food Group, with those block transactions totaling 70.64 million dirhams.

The consistent net buying positions across both markets point to investors who remain constructive on equity valuations. The concentration in real estate and banking reflects long-standing preferences within the UAE investment community. Whether that conviction holds as index levels stay elevated, particularly with Abu Dhabi trading above 10,000 points, is the question the coming weeks will answer.