Investors opened more than 194,000 securities accounts in April

Data from the Vietnam Securities Depository and Clearing Corporation shows that new accounts opened in April were mainly by domestic individual investors with 193,948 accounts.

This is the highest level since August 2024, showing that individual investors are returning to the market.

The number of newly opened accounts by domestic institutional investors last month was 101. Meanwhile, the number of foreign investor accounts decreased by 26 units.

Thus, there are a total of 9.88 million accounts in the market; of which, domestic individual accounts are 9.813 million accounts, domestic institutional investors are 18,129 accounts, and foreign investors are 48,233 accounts.

The number of new accounts opened in April reached a high level in the context of strong market fluctuations. At the end of April, the VN-Index stopped at 1,226.3 points, down 6.16% compared to the end of March 2025 due to the impact of tariff information.

According to experts from Saigon- Hanoi Securities Joint Stock Company (SHS), in April, foreign organizations continued to increase net selling with a value of VND 13,515 billion on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange, raising the cumulative level for the first 4 months of 2025, with a net selling surge of VND 38,723 billion, nearly 45% of the net selling value in the whole year of 2024.

However, foreign investors reduced their net selling pressure in the last weeks of April 2025. The proportion of foreign institutional investors' transactions continued to increase to 12.6% in April 2025, close to the highest rate of 13.7% in November 2022. Foreign individual investors made a slight net purchase in April with a value of VND 102.2 billion.

Domestic institutional investors also sold strongly with a value of VND 8,907.8 billion. In the first 4 months of 2025, domestic institutions sold net with a value of VND 4,541.7 billion. The proportion of transactions by domestic institutions increased to 9.41% in April.

Domestic individual investors are an important force responding to the strong net selling pressure of institutional investors. Domestic individual investors increased their net buying strongly in April with a sudden value of VND 22,321 billion. This is a large net buying value in 1 month.

In the first 4 months of 2025, domestic individual investors made a net purchase of VND 43,884 billion. The transaction ratio of individual investors was 77.7%.

Source: https://hanoimoi.vn/nha-dau-tu-mo-hon-194-000-tai-khoan-chung-khoan-trong-thang-4-701794.html