Published on: 2026-06-03
Source: Moscow Exchange –
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Investments by individuals in securities on the Moscow Exchange stock market in May 2026 increased by 25% compared to May 2025 and amounted to 195.2 billion rubles.
Private investors’ investments in stocks amounted to 19.4 billion rubles in May, and in bonds – 146.7 billion (+29% compared to May 2025). Investments in mutual and investment funds amounted to 29.1 billion rubles, which is 1.7 times more than in May 2025.
The number of private investors with brokerage accounts on the Moscow Exchange as of the end of May 2026 amounted to 41.6 million[*], with 79.6 million accounts opened. In May, 3 million people made transactions on the Moscow Exchange, more than 350 thousand of whom were qualified investors.
The share of individuals in the volume of stock trading in May was 66.7%, in the volume of bond trading – 12.2%, in the derivatives market – 52.6%.
In May, more than 843 thousand private investors made trades on the stock and derivatives market of the Moscow Exchange, and their share in trading volume was 79%.
In May 2026, the most popular securities in the portfolios of private investors were ordinary and preferred shares of Sberbank (30.3% and 7.2% respectively), Gazprom (12.2%), LUKOIL shares (11.6%), VTB (9.8%), T-Technology**(6.8%), Yandex (5.9%), X5 (5.8%), Rosneft (5.2%), Polyus (5.2%).
In the top 10 Russian BPFs in the portfolios of private investors were investment funds in money market assets LQDT (44.6%), AKMM (20.2%), SBMM (16.6%) and BCSD (2.2%), AMNR (2%), corporate ruble bonds SBRB (3.3%), investment funds in bonds with variable coupon AKFB (3.2%) and SBFR (2.6%), actively managed investment fund in bonds AKMB (2.7%), investment fund in money market assets and bonds SAFE (2.6%).
The most popular papers from the Moscow Exchange Index IPO among private investors as of the end of May 2026 were shares of the companies Zaymer (ZAYM), VI.ru (VSEH), Promomed (PRMD), Ozon Pharmaceutics (OZPH), MTS-Bank (MBNK), Lambumiz (LMBZ), Europlan (LEAS), IVAT (IVAT), Gloraxa (GLRX), DOM.RF (DOMRF).
The number of individual investment accounts (IIAs) as of the end of May amounted to 6.3 million (+66.4 thousand in May). The trading turnover on IIAs accounts in May 2026 totaled 223.9 billion rubles. In the turnover structure, 47% were transactions with shares, 25% with bonds, and 28% with units of investment funds.
Regions – leaders by number of open IIs: Moscow (639.2 thousand accounts), Moscow Region (374.4 thousand) and Saint Petersburg (313.9 thousand). Following them are Krasnodar Krai (213.2 thousand), Sverdlovsk Region (209.6 thousand accounts), Republic of Bashkortostan (191.7 thousand), Tatarstan (172.3 thousand), Rostov Region (168.6 thousand), Chelyabinsk Region (152.8 thousand) and Samara Region (143.4 thousand).
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