Since 4 December, Ūkio bankas shares have been included in the prestigious OMX indexes, OMX Baltic Benchmark and OMX Baltic 10, of the Baltic Securities Market.

Presently, by stock exchange turnover, Ūkio bankas shares are among five most actively traded shares on the Baltic OMX Market. This year the sales and purchase of the Bank’s shares amounted to roughly EUR 66 million. This accounts for over 29 percent and more than 7 percent of the share turnover of the Vilnius Stock Exchange Main List and the OMX Baltic Market Main List, respectively.

“We believe that the including of Ūkio bankas shares in these indexes will attract still greater attention of both Baltic and Nordic investors. In particular we link this with the tradable OMX Baltic 10 index wherein our Bank will be the only one to represent the financial and banking sector in the Baltics," says Edita Karpavičienė, chairwoman of Ūkio bankas Board.

“All companies included in indexes receive increased attention and become more visible since the indexes are used by investors and analysts and announced by the mass media. Companies included in indexes enjoy new opportunities of drawing investment since investors will more often direct bigger amounts of investments to these particular companies,” says Arminta Saladžienė, Board chairwoman of Vilnius Stock Exchange.

In her words, to be included in OMX Baltic Benchmark and OMX Baltic indexes, companies’ shares have to be liquid and sufficient number thereof has to be freely circulated in the market.

Ūkio bankas shares are also included in a new OMX Baltic index of the financial sector.