Base metals and chemicals top the Tehran bourse by market value

According to a new ranking published by Mehr News Agency on Wednesday, 5 August 2026 (14 Mordad 1405), the combined market value of 803 companies active across 48 listed industries has reached 18,188 hemat, with most of that value concentrated in a handful of large sectors.

Base metals ranked first with 54 active companies and a market value of 3,617 hemat, followed by chemical products with 71 companies and 3,580 hemat. Those two industries alone account for more than 7,197 hemat of total market value.

Third through fifth place went to refined petroleum products, coke and nuclear fuel with 13 companies and 1,950 hemat, banks and credit institutions with 18 companies and 1,671 hemat, and multi sector industrial companies with 9 companies and 1,132 hemat. They are followed by metal ore extraction (915 hemat), investment firms (819 hemat), pharmaceutical materials and products (783 hemat), cement, lime and gypsum (505 hemat) and automotive and parts manufacturing (415 hemat).