The Top 20 Greek Companies by Market Capitalization

The FTSE/ATHEX 20 Index is composed of the 20 largest Greek blue chip companies that are listed in the Athens Stock Exchange.The constituents in this index are selected based on the market capitalization.

Components of the  FTSE/ATHEX 20 Index are:

S.No.CompanyTicker in the domestic marketIndustry
1ALPHA BANKALPHABanks
2AGRICULTURAL BANK OF GREECE S.A.ATEBanks
3VIOHALKO HELLENIC COPPER AND ALUMINIUM INDUSTRY S.A.BIOXIndustrial Goods & Services
4BANK OF CYPRUS PUBLIC COMPANY LTDBOCBanks
5COCA-COLA HBCEEEKFood & Beverage
6ELLAKTOR S.A.ELLAKTORConstruction & Materials
7HELLENIC PETROLEUM S.A.ELPEOil & Gas
8NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE S.A.ETEBanks
9EFG EUROBANK ERGASIAS S.A.EUROBBanks
10HELLENIC TELECOM. ORG.HTOTelecommunications
11INTRALOT S.A.- INTEGRATED LOTTERY SYSTEMS & SERVICESINLOTTravel & Leisure
12MARFIN POPULAR BANK PUBLIC CO LTDMARFBBanks
13MARFIN INVESTMENT GROUP HOLDINGS SAMIGFinancial Services
14MOTOR OIL (HELLAS) CORINTH REFINERIES SAMOHOil & Gas
15MYTILINEOS HOLDINGS S.A.MYTILBasic Resources
16GREEK ORGANISATION OF FOOTBALL PROGNOSTICS S.A.OPAPTravel & Leisure
17PUBLIC POWER CORPORATION SAPPCUtilities
18TITAN CEMENT COMPANY S.A.TITKConstruction & Materials
19PIRAEUS BANK S.A.TPEIRBanks
20TT HELLENIC POSTBANK S.A.TTBanks

FTSE/ATHEX 20 Five Year Performance Chart:

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Some of the index constituents available as sponsored ADRs are National Bank of Greece(NBG), Alpha Bank(OTC: ALBKY) and Coca Cola HBC(CCH).Coca Cola HBC is down 1.65%YTD.

There is no country specific ETF for Greece in the US markets.The Lyxor MSCI Greece ETF trades on the Euronext Paris with ticker GRE. This ETF tracks the MSCI Greece index.

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[...] Did you ever wonder what the top 20 Greek stocks were?  Well, me neither, but now that the country of Greece is in the news daily, I have started to wonder.  I used to do some advisory work for a large mining company headquartered in Greece, but haven’t done much work in the Greek space since.  The top 20 stocks in Greece are listed at this site. [...]

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