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The Muscat Stock Exchange-listed investment firm posted a loss per share of 12.78 baisa in the period, reversing earnings of 11.09 baisa a year earlier. In the second quarter alone the company recorded a marginal attributable loss of RO 20,000 against a profit of RO 1.14 million in the corresponding quarter of 2025. The preliminary financial results reflect a sharp decline in total income that the filing attributed to weaker performance across the group’s investment activities.
Oman & Emirates Investment Holding Co. SAOG had reported markedly stronger results for the preceding 15-month transitional period ended March 31, 2026, when group net profit reached RO 4.2 million and parent net profit stood at RO 4.7 million, according to an earlier disclosure on the exchange. That filing showed shareholders’ equity rising to RO 27.268 million while the aggregate value of investments increased to RO 34.657 million. The company also reduced its total borrowings to RO 6.847 million, of which RO 3.625 million represented an interest-free government soft loan.
Company information filed with the Muscat Stock Exchange describes Oman & Emirates Investment Holding Co. SAOG as an entity engaged in investment activities and related services with operations in both Oman and the United Arab Emirates. Its portfolio includes stakes in Omani Euro Food Industries Company SAOG and The Financial Corporation Company SAOG, although the group terminated a proposed acquisition of the remaining stake in the latter entity in September 2026. Shares of the company resumed trading on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange last month after a temporary suspension, separate exchange notices show.
Data maintained on TradingView for the ticker MSX:OEIO place the company’s current market capitalisation at approximately RO 13.2 million with a forward price-to-earnings multiple of 3.91 times for 2026. The Muscat Stock Exchange itself has recorded substantial growth in recent years, with overall market capitalisation climbing more than 45 percent from RO 22 billion at the end of 2021 to over RO 32 billion in 2025, according to exchange statistics. Trading value on the platform expanded more than fivefold in the same timeframe to exceed RO 5 billion last year.
The investment holding company’s latest results arrive as listed firms across the Muscat Stock Exchange delivered aggregate net profits of $1.4 billion in the second quarter of 2026, a 24.2 percent increase from a year earlier, a Kamco Invest research report published in September found. Banking sector earnings within that universe rose 9.2 percent to $418 million in the quarter. Oman & Emirates Investment Holding Co. SAOG’s performance diverged from the broader listed-company trend, the preliminary filing indicates.
Oman & Emirates Investment Holding Co. SAOG changed its financial year-end from December to March, making the period ended March 2026 a 15-month transitional year that incorporated five quarters of activity. Subsequent half-year results therefore cover the first two quarters of the new fiscal cycle. The company has not released further commentary on the drivers behind the first-half loss beyond the income decline noted in the exchange filing.
