Hoa Phat Group (HPG) shares became the focus of the market in the trading session on August 5, 2025. In total, 215.99 million shares were transferred in the session, equivalent to a transaction value of more than VND 5,700 billion.
Not only leading in the Top liquidity of the market today, the cash flow pouring into Hoa Phat shares also set a new record for the trading volume of this "giant" in the steel industry. Notably, not only attracting domestic capital, Hoa Phat shares also received nearly 1,100 billion VND in foreign capital disbursement, although overall on the floor, the net selling momentum was still overwhelming.
This record liquidity far exceeds the previous peak with a trading volume of 99.66 million shares set on November 17, 2022. Trading was bustling when all of the nearly 1.3 billion shares issued by Hoa Phat to pay 2024 dividends (ratio 100:20) were officially transferred to investor accounts on July 31. Currently, the total number of HPG shares in circulation is 7.67 billion shares. With today's trading session, nearly 3% of the outstanding shares changed hands.
Closing the record trading session, the stock price reached 26,400 VND/share, equal to the session on July 23 when HPG shares recorded the closing price in the trading history. Correspondingly, Hoa Phat's capitalization scale also reached the highest level since listing with a value of more than 202,600 billion VND, continuing to be in the top 10 listed organizations with large capitalization on the market, and at the same time being the largest capitalized manufacturing enterprise.
Along with that, Hoa Phat Group announced its financial report for the second quarter of 2025 with positive figures. Consolidated net revenue reached VND 30,417 billion, up 19% over the same period last year. Profit after tax reached VND 4,228 billion, nearly 3 times higher than the same period, mainly due to a sharp improvement in gross profit margin from 8.4% to 17.6%. In the first 6 months of the year, Hoa Phat achieved VND 58,658 billion in revenue and VND 6,834 billion in profit after tax, up 10% and 83% respectively over the same period in 2024.
Steel continues to be the core business, contributing more than 88% of consolidated revenue, with sales of construction steel, HRC, steel pipes and galvanized steel all growing positively in the last quarter. Not only growing in business, Hoa Phat also maintains a large contribution to the state budget. In the first 6 months of 2025, the Group paid 7,100 billion VND in 20 provinces and cities nationwide, bringing the total budget payment from 2007 to present to 95,000 billion VND.
Hoa Phat is nearing the completion of phase 2 of the Hoa Phat Dung Quat 2 Iron and Steel Complex project. When completed in September 2025, the Group's total steel capacity will reach 16 million tons/year, including 9 million tons of HRC, enough to meet 100% of domestic market demand for this product.
According to the latest update from this enterprise, in the first half of the year, thermal power plants at the Dung Quat and Hai Duong iron and steel complexes of Hoa Phat generated more than 1.8 billion kWh, helping the group to be self-sufficient in most of its electricity production sources.
VN-Index closed up 18.96 points to 1,547.15 points, with liquidity reaching over VND78,100 billion, breaking the record set in the session on July 29. UPCOM-Index increased slightly by 0.34 points to 107.50 points. Meanwhile, HNX-Index closed in the red, down 2.22 points to 266.12 points.
In total, 3.22 billion shares were transferred on the three exchanges. The trading volume reached VND85,756.82 billion, equivalent to nearly USD3.25 billion. In today's record liquidity session, foreign investors traded actively. Although some stocks were strongly disbursed, foreign investors still net sold nearly VND2,000 billion on the stock exchange, extending the net selling streak to the fourth session.
Source: https://baodautu.vn/ky-luc-216-trieu-co-phieu-hoa-phat-sang-tay-quy-mo-von-hoa-vuot-200000-ty-dong-d350196.html
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