Property, Financials Boost PSE Index Higher

Property and financial stocks lifted the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) index on Monday, pushing it to close in positive territory after a volatile trading session that saw the benchmark briefly dip below a key milestone.

The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) Index, August 4, 2025

The index ultimately ended the day up by 42.52 points, or 0.67%, at 6,348.65.

Property giants Ayala Land and SM Prime gained 5.56% and 3.00%, respectively, propelling the property sub-index to a 2.80% upswing. Financials also contributed with a 1.49% increase, helping offset declines in conglomerates, industrials, and services.

Gaming stock DigiPlus, once again the day’s most active, registered a total trade value of ₱851 million but tumbled by 12.45% to ₱23.90, losing ₱3.40. Market bellwether SM Investments failed to recover from earlier losses and closed at ₱821, down ₱13 or 1.56%.

Other gaming-related firms—Belle Corp., Bloomberry, and PhilWeb—also fell, dragging the services sub-index down by 0.07%.

The industrial and holding firm indices declined by 0.37% and 0.56%, respectively. Meanwhile, mining and oil gained 2.31%.

Total value turnover reached ₱5.19 billion, with foreign transactions totaling ₱4.3 billion—comprised of ₱2.07 billion in foreign buying and ₱2.329 billion in foreign selling—for net foreign selling of ₱257 million.

The index opened quietly at 6,315.54 and bottomed out at 6,256.93 before bargain hunters lifted it to its intraday high. Market breadth was positive with 100 gainers, 91 losers, and 61 unchanged.

Unchanged stocks included BDO Unibank, ICTSI, Topline, Figaro Coffee, Nickel Asia, ABS-CBN, Citicore REIT, Atlas Mining, DITO CME, and Haus Talk.

Among the gainers were Bank of the Philippine Islands, Ayala Corp., Manila Water, Metrobank, PNB, Citicore REIT, Security Bank, First Gen, Meralco, SPNEC, Victorias Milling, Vitarich, GT Capital, Globe Telecom, PLDT, Converge, Philodrill, Robinsons Land, RL Commercial REIT, Puregold, Century Pacific Food, and AREIT REIT.

Among the losers were China Bank, Ferronickel, Union Bank, ACEN Corp., Alternergy, Semirara Mining, AgriNurture, Axelum, Jollibee Foods, Monde Nissin, Megawide, DoubleDragon, AbaCore, DMCI Holdings, VistaREIT, and Aboitiz Power.