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Shavan Shares Rose 77.6% Over 22 Straight Sessions While Quarterly Profit Fell 90% (Saturday, September 5, 2026)
Shavan (Lavan Oil Refining) on Iran Fara Bourse has risen 77.6 percent over 22 straight higher closes, from August 1 to today, Saturday, September 5, 2026, reaching a one-year high. Yet the company quarterly statement for the period ended June 21, 2026 shows net profit per share down 90 percent from a year earlier. The rally has been driven mainly by retail buying.
Sports Ministry Fully Exits Esteghlal Football Club's Shareholder Register; Its 3.1% Stake Lands at a Persian Gulf Financial Group as the Stock Hits an Eight-Month High (Wednesday, September 2, 2026)
Iran's Ministry of Sport and Youth completely exited Esteghlal Football Club's shareholder register on September 2, 2026 (11 Shahrivar 1405), according to Tehran Stock Exchange records. The 3.1 percent stake (334,525,650 shares) the Privatization Organization had announced for sale a month earlier landed at Persian Gulf Capital Pioneers Financial Group. The same day, Esteghlal's closing price hit its highest level since January 7, 2026, its fifth straight gaining session.
Tehran's TEDPIX Falls 1.21% Today, Wednesday, Ending a Rally of At Least 19 Straight Gaining Sessions (September 2, 2026)
TEDPIX, which had climbed without a single losing session from August 3 to a record 6,583,932 points yesterday, fell 1.21% (about 80,000 points) today, Wednesday, September 2, 2026, to close at 6,503,970, alongside 5.7 trillion tomans of retail outflows.
Kian Financial Group's Stock Is Up 465% in a Year, Hit a 12-Month Record on Saturday; Its 180% Capital Increase Diluted No One
Kiana, the Tehran-listed ticker for Kian Financial Group, closed at 8,110 rials on Monday, August 31, 2026, up 465% from 1,435 rials a year earlier on September 2, 2025. Two days earlier, on Saturday, August 29, the stock closed at a 12-month record of 8,160 rials, two weeks after shareholders approved a 180% capital increase funded entirely from retained earnings, which does not dilute holders. Only 9% of the stock's shares are free-floating.
Rail Pardaz Novafarin's Stake in Dlip Jumps From 49.5% to 80.9% After a 450% Rights-Stripped Capital Increase (Saturday, August 29, 2026)
Rail Pardaz Novafarin's stake in Tehran Stock Exchange base-market ticker Dlip (Delijan Talaei Shokouh Pars) rose from 49.53% to 80.93% in the exchange's official ownership record dated August 26, 2026, three days after Dlip's 450.5% capital increase, funded entirely from cash with existing shareholders' pre-emptive rights stripped, was formally registered.
Iran Radiator Hits Second Straight One-Year High on Tehran Stock Exchange After 36% Sapco Rate Hike Worth 103.5 Billion Tomans in Revenue (Wednesday, August 26, 2026)
Iran Radiator Manufacturing Co. (RADI) told Codal that Sapco raised its product prices 36 percent, an effect it estimates at about 103.5 billion tomans (8 percent of last year's revenue) by fiscal year end. The stock gained more than 10 percent over four sessions and today, Wednesday, August 26, 2026, closed at a fresh one-year high for the second straight session, at its daily price ceiling.
Fameli Hits a One-Year Record of 19,950 Rials on a Third Straight Rally; Its Valuation Sits in the 23rd Percentile of Its Own Sector (Wednesday, August 26, 2026)
Shares of Fameli (National Iranian Copper Industries) on the Tehran Stock Exchange rose 2.99 percent to 19,950 rials on Wednesday, August 26, 2026 (Shahrivar 4, 1405), a one-year closing high and a third straight up session. The company's trailing twelve-month net profit is up 261 percent year on year, yet Sahmino's own screen places Fameli in just the 23rd valuation percentile of its 93-member basic-metals peer group, with a P/E about 31 percent above the sector average.
Bank Tejarat Hits 20th Straight Rising Session and a 795-Billion-Toman Buy Queue, Still Trading 27% Below Book Value (Tuesday, August 25, 2026)
Bank Tejarat (وتجارت) closed Monday, August 24 at a 52-week high of 901 rials, its 20th consecutive rising session, then rose another 3% to 928 rials today, Tuesday, August 25, closing locked in a buy queue worth roughly 795 billion tomans. Yet under its audited Codal financial statement, the stock still trades about 27% below book value; it is up 59% over one month and 187% over one year.
Third Straight Pharma Buy Queue in Under a Week: IRDR Hits a One Year High on a 19 Session Run With No Price Moving Codal Disclosure Behind It (Monday, August 24, 2026)
IRDR (Iran Daru) closed up 2.94% and locked in a buy queue on Monday, August 24, 2026, taking its closing price to 14,000 rials: a 19th straight higher close and a fresh one year high, 444.2% above its 2,572.58 rial low of September 24, 2025. Unlike DJBR and Razak, which showed the same pattern recently, Sahmino found no price moving material disclosure filed by the company on Codal in the past 90 days.
DJBR Jumps 14.53%, Extends Winning Streak to 10 Sessions and Hits a 52-Week High; 13 Days After Bank Employees' Pension Fund Exited Its Stake (Monday, August 24, 2026)
Tehran Stock Exchange ticker DJBR (Jaber Ebne Hayyan Pharmaceutical) opened 14.53% above yesterday's close on Monday, August 24, 2026, closing at a 10th straight higher session and a 52-week high of 44,340 rials, on volume 17.8 times its 20-session average. The rally began just 13 days after the Bank Employees' Pension Fund sold its entire 16.58% stake, worth about 1,588 billion tomans, to National Investment Company of Iran (NIKI) on August 11, 2026.
Tehran Stock Exchange Notches Second Straight Record, But Sunday's Gain Shrinks to Just 0.14 Percent
TEDPIX climbed as high as 6,154,000 points in mid session trading on Sunday, August 23, 2026, notching a second straight record close, but a wave of second half selling pared the day's gain to just 0.14 percent, at 6,069,888 points. Buy queues held on only 245 symbols, and per Donya-e-Eqtesad, both real money and fixed income funds ended the day with cash flowing out.
Razak Pharmaceutical (DRZK) Has Risen About 176% Since Its June 15 Reopening, Closing Each Session Bid-Locked; Behind the Run, a Jump in Quarterly Profit and a P/E Below the Sector Average
Razak Pharmaceutical (DRZK), halted for roughly four months, has climbed nearly 176% from its June 15, 2026 reopening to August 19, closing that last session at 3,980 rials on a buy queue, with volume about five times the one-month average. Behind the run sits the interim statement for the three months to June 21, 2026, in which net profit rose more than 15-fold year over year and revenue grew 92%. Even so, the stock's P/E of about 8.8 is still below the pharmaceutical sector average.
Ehya Locks Limit Up for a Second Session; New Fara Bourse Listing Trades 36 Percent Above Its IPO Price (Tuesday, 20 Mordad 1405)
Ehya (FLBZ), the newest Fara Bourse listing, rose 2.98 percent to its price ceiling of 3,520 rials on Tuesday, 20 Mordad 1405 (August 11, 2026) and stayed locked in a buy queue, meaning the stock is now about 36 percent above its 2,582 rial IPO discovery price after just two sessions. Only 4 percent of the sponge iron producer's shares are freely traded, and institutions were today's net sellers.
Tehran Bourse Retail Turnover Hit a Record 65 Trillion Tomans on Sunday; the Same Day Saw a 6.9 Trillion Toman Retail Outflow
Retail trading value on the Tehran Stock Exchange topped 65 trillion tomans on Sunday, 18 Mordad 1405 (August 9, 2026), an all-time record. The same day, about 6.9 trillion tomans of retail money left the market net, reversing a five-session run of retail buying. TEDPIX still closed up 0.72 percent at 5,559,964 points.
