Corporate ownership increased by about 189.7 billion riyals, compared to about 15.59 billion riyals at the end of 2017, after companies increased their ownership shares from the value of listed bonds and bonds last year by about 11 times That's 1117%.

The rise in corporate ownership from listed bonds and sukuks is due to the significant development in the size of the bond and sukuk market, especially as the development of the domestic debt instrument market is one of the initiatives of the Financial Sector Development Program in Kingdom.

The total number of listed sukuk and bond owners by the end of 2018 increased by 19.2% to 62 owners, compared to the end of 2017 with 52 owners.

In contrast, government and semi-government agencies acquired 24.3% of the value of listed bonds and bonds at the end of 2018, to reach about 67.3 billion riyals, compared to 29.2% at the end of 2017 When the ownership of the funds came about 19.9 billion riyals, equivalent to about 7.2% of the size of the bond and sukuk market.

It is mentioned that, in 2018, the ownership of bonds and sukuk amounted to about 34 companies, while its ownership during 2017 was about 29 companies, thus the number of companies increased by about five companies,