The short week on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange (BSE) brought declines for three of the indexes despite the two positive sessions on Wednesday and Friday. The SOFIX blue-chip index shed 3.23% of its value on Thursday dropping again below 500 points.

The indexes ended today's session higher after having spent post of the day in negative territory: SOFIX (+0.28%, to 491.20 points), BG 40 (+0.88%, to 133.70 points), BG REIT (+1.16%, to 48.67 points) and BG TR30 (+0.79%, to 367.94 points).

BSE's overall turnover came close to 10 mln leva. A total of nearly 2 mln shares in Sopharma (1.5% of the capital of the company) traded hands at a price of 4.1 leva per share, or a total of 8.2 mln leva. Sopharma's stock appreciated by 0.46% to 4.17 leva per share.

A total of 89 issues were traded on the day with 38 of the stocks posting price gains.

Three of the indexes posted weekly declines. These are SOFIX (-2.57%), BG 40 (-0.59%) and BG TR30 (-0.98%). BG REIT advanced by (+0.75%).

The performance of the indexes in September is as follows: SOFIX (+6.48%), BG 40 (+4.27%), BG REIT (+10.06%) and BG TR30 (+6.97%).

The indexes are in positive territory since the start of the year: SOFIX (+36.95%), BG 40 (+24.01%), BG REIT (+0.29%) and BG TR30 (+34.87%).

A total of 10 companies included in the calculation of BG40 posted weekly stock price gains. Bulgarska-Roza Sevtopolis was the biggest gainer advancing by 5.00%, to an average of 1.47 leva per share.

Elhim Iskra's average stock price went up by 4.88%, to 2.15 leva per share. Toplivo was the third best performer over the week advancing by 2.59%, to 5.55 leva per share.

See the table for more details on the weekly performance of BG40's stocks:

Company18 Sept25 SeptChange%4BJ/Bulgarska-Roza Sevtopolis 1,41,47552E/Elhim Iskra2,052,154,883TV/Toplivo5,415,552,594EC/ELARG REIT 0,930,952,1557B/bulgartabac Holding 23,9724,441,965IC/Euroins1,871,91,6T57/Trace Group Hold 79,4180,281,15SR/Stara Planina Hold 2,012,0316C9/Corporate Commercial Bank 53,5854,090,955OTZ/Lead & Zinc Complex 15,6815,80,776F3/FairPlay Properties REIT 0,470,4706D3/Devin3,043,03-0,335PET/Petrol5,35,27-0,574ID/IH Bulgaria 2,192,17-0,915BP/Billboard1,421,4-1,415MB/Monbat7,717,6-1,435ORG/Orgachim103,64102,14-1,455ALB/Alben IH6,266,14-1,925ODE/Odessos Ship Repair Yard 124,66122-2,136K1/Kaolin5,955,82-2,185BU/Bulgaria Real Estate Fund 0,450,44-2,225MH/M+S Hydraulic 6,196,05-2,265DOV/Doverie UH 3,953,86-2,28T43/Zarneni Hrani Bulgaria 0,810,79-2,474CF/Central Cooperativer Bank 1,611,57-2,485BN/Bulgarian American Credit Bank 20,2919,75-2,664EH/Eurohold Bulgaria 1,651,6-3,036S7/Synergon Holding 2,532,45-3,166C4/Chimimport 2,682,59-3,366H2/Holding Roads 3,833,69-3,66E4A/Enemona12,1211,65-3,883NB/Neochim 39,6638,02-4,14SL9/Sparky Eltos 2,332,23-4,295MY /Moststroy 5,355,12-4,35T3/Corporation Saedinenie0,20,19-55F4/First Investment Bank 3,333,16-5,113JR/Sopharma4,344,1-5,536AM/Alcomet 3,423,22-5,856AB/Albena41,7539-6,594F6/Fazerles46,8743,6-6,98BG40134,49133,7-0,59

Data: BSE