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.
Most traded on JSE, last 30 sessions
- 234
- Listings, one page each
- 227
- In the sitemap today
- 0
- ETFs
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.
- 227 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.
227 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/jse%3AGFI/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.
JSE
Most traded
The thirty names with the highest traded value over the last thirty sessions.
234 pages
Symbols A to Z
Every listing on the venue, one page each, grouped by first letter.
REST and MCP
The bars endpoint
One call per symbol at 1Min to 1Day, adjusted or raw, cursor paged.
No card
Free key
One year of daily bars on every symbol; paid plans add the full history and minute bars.
Most traded on JSE
Ranked by average daily traded value over the last 30 sessions, from the stored bars.
- 1GFIGold Fields Limited
- 2NPNNaspers Limited
- 3ANGAngloGold Ashanti plc
- 4CPICapitec Limited
- 5FSRFirstRand Limited
- 6SOLSasol Limited
- 7MTNMTN Group Limited
- 8VALValterra Platinum Limited
- 9PRXProsus N.V.
- 10AGLAnglo American plc
- 11SBKStandard Bank Group Limited
- 12ABGAbsa Group Limited
- 13GLNGlencore plc
- 14ANHAnheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV
- 15HARHarmony Gold Mining Company Limited
- 16BTIBritish American Tobacco p.l.c.
- 17BIDBid Corporation Limited
- 18NEDNedbank Group Limited
- 19IMPImpala Platinum Holdings Limited
- 20SHPShoprite Holdings Ltd
- 21CLSClicks Group Limited
- 22SSWSibanye Stillwater Limited
- 23NPHNortham Platinum Holdings Limited
- 24CFRCompagnie Financière Richemont SA
- 25SLMSanlam Limited
- 26PPHPepkor Holdings Limited
- 27DSYDiscovery Limited
- 28BHGBHP Group Limited
- 29VODVodacom Group Limited
- 30OMUOld Mutual Limited
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