Enabling a winning path through economic cycles is one of the promises of financial investments. This promise may not be kept in 2022 on the BRVM. Based on market data published on Friday, December 9, the Regional Securities Exchange (BRVM) of the West African Economic and Monetary Union is not yet allowing its investors to protect themselves from inflation present in all economic blocs in the world.

Stocks are losing value overall and earnings are growing more slowly than inflation. While the global value of transactions has reached a record level of 161 billion FCFA ($258 million) for all the companies listed on it, the composite index that groups all of them has fallen by 4.4% since the start of the year. This represents a loss of 250 billion FCFA on the total value of the shares listed on this market in absolute terms. The increase in the net margins of listed companies is not as vigorous as in 2021, in addition to not yet generating any gain on its main index.

The overall net profit is 548.3 billion FCFA for the 26 of them who have already published the results for the first 9 months of 2022.