Middle East & Africa · EGP

Egypt stock market historical data

260 listings across EGX. Daily history back to first listing, minute bars from capture forward, one page per symbol.

Get a free keyAbout EGX

EGX trading day, Sunday to Thursday

10:00 to 14:30 EET07:00 to 11:30 UTC

EGX 30, priced in EGP, settling T+2.

1883
Founded in Cairo
200
Listed companies
260
Symbol pages on DataCedar

Egypt key facts

  • Egypt's stock market trades on EGX, priced in EGP; its headline indices are EGX 30.
  • Egyptian Exchange, founded 1883 in Cairo, trades 10:00 to 14:30 EET, Sunday to Thursday, regulated by Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA).
  • DataCedar covers 260 Egypt listings with a price history page and an API call each.
  • Daily bars run back to each symbol's first sourced session; minute bars run from the day capture began for the symbol and are never backfilled.

About EGX

Full name
Egyptian Exchange
Location
Cairo, Egypt
Founded
1883
Regulator
Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA)
Trading hours
10:00 to 14:30 EET
Trading days
Sunday to Thursday
Time zone
Africa/Cairo
Currency
EGP
Settlement
T+2 (T+1 for some securities)
Ticker convention
Four letter codes (COMI, HRHO, TMGH, ETEL)
Headline indices
EGX 30
Listed
about 200 listed companies (2025)
Market capitalisation
about USD 50 billion (2025)
  • Formed from the Alexandria exchange (1883) and the Cairo exchange (1903), once among the largest in the world.
  • The EGX 30 is the benchmark; Commercial International Bank is its largest weight.
  • Trades Sunday to Thursday.
  • EGX publishes daily bulletins; historical data is licensed through its data services.

About Egypt market data on DataCedar

Egypt trades on EGX, priced in EGP, and its headline indices are EGX 30. DataCedar stores one daily bar per trading session for every listing, back to the first session it can source, and one minute bar per trading minute from the day capture begins for that symbol, all under one schema and one API.

Every one of the 260 listings has a page with its returns, records and year by year table; pages with enough traded history are in the sitemap, the rest are reachable from the A to Z lists. Tell us which symbols you need; requests move the queue. See pricing and every exchange.

Egypt stock data by API

One call per symbol, the same schema on every exchange: timeframe 1Min to 1Day, adjustment raw or all, start and end. See the bars endpoint.

curl "https://api.datacedar.com/v3/stocks/EGS01041C010/bars?timeframe=1Day&adjustment=all&limit=50000" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"

ExchangesEgypt exchanges and how to get the data

Each exchange has its own page: trading hours, ticker convention, indices, and the symbols A to Z once it is live.

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