SAR 33M in Negotiated Trades Hit Tadawul

Seven negotiated deals totaling SAR 33 million crossed Tadawul on June 22, data from the exchange showed. The trades involved Advanced, Aramco, Lumi, Bupa Arabia, Budget Saudi, Sipchem, and Ataa.

Negotiated deals are executed outside the regular order book. They do not affect the last traded price, the session’s high or low, the opening or closing price, or the sector and market indices. That means the SAR 33 million figure is a pure block-activity data point. It offers no read-through on where those names are trading or where bids sit.

The list of names is broad – a state-backed energy major, two insurers, a chemicals producer, a telecoms infrastructure firm, a car rental operator, and a petrochemical maker. No single sector concentrated the flow. That distribution suggests the source was institutional allocation or rebalancing, not a sector-specific catalyst or a distressed seller.

For a trader building a watchlist, the negotiated deal data matters only as a liquidity footprint. If a stock sees repeated block prints above its average daily volume, the institutional interest can prefigure a wider move. A single deal day, across seven unrelated names, is noise until it repeats.

What to check next: whether any of the seven stocks see follow-on block activity in the coming sessions. A second round on, say, Advanced or Sipchem would shift the signal from rebalancing scatter to directional accumulation.