After the foreign investment has jumped three times during a decade. What does it mean to liberalize their ownership in the Saudi Market?

Foreign investments in the Saudi financial market increased from about 99 billion Riyals in June 2015, the date on which foreign investors traded, to 411.65 billion Riyals in June 2025, according to the data of the Capital Market Authority, which is a jump three times during a decade of gradual openness. This foreign ownership mutation is gaining new momentum with the capital market authority that approves a fundamental amendment that increases the ceiling of foreigners’ ownership in the listed companies, which is currently determined by 49%. A step that, according to analysts, will make a major shift in the map of foreign investment flow, and the attraction of the Saudi market on global indicators will improve. Read: Saudi Arabia is on their way to offering majority classes in the companies listed for foreigners for more on the upcoming decision to open for liberation when the market is opened in the first half of 2015. Foreigners’ ownership has distributed about 99 billion Riyals on various investment categories. Since then, the market has seen a greater diversity in the forms of ownership that include: exchange agreements, resident investors, qualified investors, strategic partners and managed foreign portfolios. Over time, the exchange agreements fell by 90%, from 23 billion Riyals to only 2.2 billion, and the ownership of strategic partners fell 30% to 48.6 billion Riyals. On the other hand, ownership of qualified investors jumped to 331.2 billion rows, and residents’ investments increased to 17.9 billion rows, according to market market. The value of the ownership of foreign investors has developed according to their category since the beginning of the openness (billion Riyals) at the end of the period, foreign exchange agreements, foreign investors living foreign investors, foreign investors, foreign strategic partners, foreign conservative, first half 2015 2018 16.52 4.21 18.84.40. 0.01, the first half 2021 2.26 7.89 216.73 49.28 0.02 first half 2024 2.44 11.38 320.96 51.59 16.06 first half 2025 2.21 17.94 331.24 48.64 11.62 Currently, foreigners have listed different strikes in 368. 33 Businesses in which foreign ownership exceeds 10% of capital, and 12 companies that include foreign strategic investors, such as ‘Arabic Buba’, ‘Petro Rabigh’ and ‘Sabic Agricultural Nutrition’. of 10.6 billion dollars attract. But he indicated that the achievement of 100% is not currently due to the continued control of the government and government institutions on shares in large companies. Local economic mobility will be the most advantageous, led by banks, technology and financial services. Van JB Morgan, a larger weight in global indicators, can increase the removal or increase of the ceiling above 49% Saudi Arabia in the MSCI Emerging Market to 3.95% instead of currently 3.13%. -Arabia is on the list of monitoring the JP Morgan index for state bonds in emerging markets, is a step within a more comprehensive vision if the decision enters the implementation before the end of the year, as the government expected, the Saudi financial market will move to a new stage of institutional openness, Center. Despite the variation of the estimates of analysts over the amount of flow and the new roof boundaries, there is a consensus that the decision will give the market extra momentum and increase its attraction on the map of global investments.