South Africa · ZAR · Johannesburg (Sandton)

JSE historical stock data

234 listings: 234 stocks and 0 ETFs. Daily history back to first listing and minute bars from capture forward, one page per symbol.

JSE trading day, Monday to Friday

09:00 to 16:50 SAST07:00 to 14:50 UTC

FTSE/JSE Top 40, priced in ZAR, settling T+3.

1887
Founded in Johannesburg (Sandton)
280
Listed companies
234
Symbol pages on DataCedar

JSE key facts

  • Johannesburg Stock Exchange is a South Africa stock exchange in Johannesburg (Sandton), founded in 1887, trading in ZAR; its headline indices are FTSE/JSE Top 40.
  • JSE trades 09:00 to 16:50 SAST, closing auction to 17:00, Monday to Friday, settling T+3; it lists about 280 listed companies (2025).
  • DataCedar covers 234 JSE listings: 234 stocks and 0 ETFs, each with a price history page and an API call.
  • 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.
  • 0 of the 234 JSE pages carry enough traded history to be listed in the sitemap.

About JSE

Full name
Johannesburg Stock Exchange
Location
Johannesburg (Sandton), South Africa
Founded
1887
Regulator
Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA)
Trading hours
09:00 to 16:50 SAST, closing auction to 17:00
Trading days
Monday to Friday
Time zone
Africa/Johannesburg
Currency
ZAR
Settlement
T+3
Ticker convention
Three letter codes (NPN, AGL, SOL, FSR); prices quoted in cents
Headline indices
FTSE/JSE Top 40
Listed
about 280 listed companies (2025)
Market capitalisation
about USD 1 trillion (2025), the largest in Africa
  • Founded during the Witwatersrand gold rush; still the largest exchange on the continent.
  • The FTSE/JSE Top 40 and All Share are the benchmarks; Naspers and Prosus have dominated the index weight.
  • Prices are quoted in South African cents rather than rand.
  • JSE licenses historical data through its market data services; daily closing prices are published.

JSE symbols A to Z

Every listing on the venue, grouped by first letter. Each symbol has its own price history page.

JSE historical data on DataCedar

DataCedar stores one daily bar per trading session for each of the 234 JSE listings, back to the first session it can source, and one minute bar per trading minute from the day capture began for that symbol. Prices come adjusted for splits and dividends, and raw.

0 of the 234 pages carry enough traded history to be listed in the sitemap; the rest exist, are linked from the A to Z pages and are marked noindex until they qualify. Read the coverage note, see pricing for the plan windows, or tell us which symbols you need.

JSE data by API

One call per symbol, the same schema on every exchange. timeframe is 1Min, 5Min, 15Min, 1Hour or 1Day; adjustment is raw, split, dividend or all; start and end bound the window. See the bars endpoint.

curl "https://api.datacedar.com/v3/stocks/4SI/bars?timeframe=1Day&adjustment=all&limit=50000" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"

Get the dataJSE data, four ways in

Every JSE symbol has a page you can read for free; the series behind it is served by the API under a key.

Common questions

JSE historical data

Start with any symbol.