BBS leads BSE in H1

The country’s only indigenous bank enjoyed a strong 2024, recording its first ever profit in the first half of last year and ending the full year with pretax profits of P45.3 million, up from a loss of P28.2 million the prior year.

Other counters in the top five gainers for the first half of the year include Choppies, Standard Chartered Bank Botswana, Sechaba and Sefalana. Botswana Telecommunications Limited, which has struggled in previous years, was the sixth best performing counter on the Domestic Companies Index in the half year. The only two losers in the half year were Letshego and G4S Botswana, whose share prices shed 8.7% and 59.2% respectively.