MIA welcomes record passengers in August

The MSE Equity Price Index rose by 0.15% to 3,795.926 points as the gains in MIA, GO, APS outweighed the declines in Lombard and BMIT. Meanwhile, two other equities closed unchanged as today’s trading activity was muted at just about €70,000. Download today’s Equity Market Summary.

Malta International Airport plc moved 0.8% higher to the €6.00 level across three trades amounting to 3,034 shares. Following the close of trading, MIA announced that passenger movements in August 2025 amounted to 1,072,390, which is 9.1% higher than the movements of 983,182 recorded in August 2024. The August 2025 figure marks the highest amount of monthly passenger movements ever handled by the airport operator. The seat load factor for August 2025 stood at 91.6%, a 0.5 percentage point increase compared to July 2025. This was the highest seat load factor registered in 2025 to date, despite that aircraft movements also increased by 5.1% when compared to the same period last year. Passenger movements during the eight-month period ended August 2025 amounted to 6.65 million, reflecting an increase of 10.8% over the corresponding period last year.

APS Bank plc rose by 1.0% to the €0.53 level on a single deal of 5,000 shares.

GO plc gained 0.7% to the €2.70 level on one trade of 1,500 shares.

On the other hand, BMIT Technologies plc shed 0.6% to the €0.328 level albeit over trivial volumes.

Lombard Bank Malta plc decreased by 0.7% to the €0.715 level on a single trade of 2,748 shares.

Meanwhile, Bank of Valletta plc closed unchanged at the €1.89 level over eleven deals amounting to 18,623 shares.

Also in the banking sector, HSBC Bank Malta plc closed unchanged at the €1.33 level across eleven trades totalling 7,042 shares.

The RF MGS Index remained virtually unchanged at 911.726 points. Data released today showed that producer prices in the US increased by 2.6% year-on-year, compared to projections of 3.3% and the previous month’s figure of 3.1%. Moreover, core producer prices unexpectedly decreased to 2.8% from 3.4% in the previous month. The lower inflation data coupled with the weakening of the US labour market points increases expectations of monetary policy easing ahead of next week’s Federal Reserve meeting.

 

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