STOCK MARKET

INVESTOR PROFILE
2022

CORPORATE PLANNING AND

RESEARCH DEPARTMENT
May 2023
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TOTAL MARKET ACCOUNTS

Data for this report was gathered from information provided by 130 trading participants (TPs) in 2022.

1,712,734
total stock market accounts in 2022,
a 5.7 percent increase from
1,620,017 accounts in 2021.

32,162
Foreign 32,162
1.7% 30,510

1,680,572
1,680,572 30,510
1,589,507

1,589,507

2022 2021
Retail Institutional
Local
98.3%
In 2022, retail accounts cornered
98.1 percent of total accounts
Local accounts comprised 1,684,167 of for the year, while the remaining
total accounts while 28,567 were 1.9 percent were classified as
classified as foreign accounts. institutional accounts.

ONLINE ACCOUNTS
Thirty-eight (38) TPs provided data on online accounts of investors in 2022.

1,258,907
Retail investors remained as the key market
for online accounts as they accounted for
up by 99.9 percent of total online accounts.
up by
8.6% Of the total online accounts, 98.6 percent
total online accounts in 2022, were local while 1.4 percent were foreign.
73.5 percent of total stock market
accounts
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PERCENTAGE OF ACTIVE ACCOUNTS

20.1% 23.7% 20.1% 24.3%

OF RETAIL OF INSTITUTIONAL OF LOCAL OF FOREIGN

20.2 % OF TOTAL ACCOUNTS 22.2 % OF ONLINE ACCOUNTS

RETAIL INVESTOR PROFILE

The results in this section were derived from more detailed total and online surveys conducted by the Exchange.
Information on gender was provided by 112 TPs; on age group by 107 TPs; on income by 106 TPs; on employment status
by 87 TPs; on sector by 94 TPs; on location by 93 TPs; and on nationality by 100 TPs.

For online accounts, information on gender, age group and annual income were provided by 34 TPs, while 25 TPs provided
data on location.

TOTAL ONLINE
GENDER
Female investors slightly There were more online accounts
outnumbered their male counterparts. owned by women than men.

49.8% 50.2% 49.0% 51.0%

AGE
About half of retail investors belonged Investors aged 44 years old and below are
to the 30-44 age group the biggest patrons of online trading.

18.7% 49.8% 20.7% 10.8% 20.8% 55.7% 18.4% 5.0%

18 to 29 30 to 44 45 to 59 60+ 18 to 29 30 to 44 45 to 59 60+
years old years old years old years old years old years old years old years old
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RETAIL INVESTOR PROFILE

TOTAL ONLINE
INCOME
Majority of total retail and online retail investors earned less than Php500,000 per annum.

53.5% 25.6% 20.9% 72.9% 13.6% 13.6%

Less than Php500k Above Less than Php500k Above
Php500k to Php1M Php1M Php500k to Php1M Php1M

EMPLOYMENT STATUS

Our retail investor base remained to be predominantly locally employed.

75.3% 7.4% 6.8%

LOCALLY EMPLOYED UNEMPLOYED SELF-EMPLOYED

5.6% 3.8% 1.1%

OFWs RETIRED STUDENT
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RETAIL INVESTOR PROFILE

SECTOR

Individuals that rendered other services made up a third of retail accounts.

They were followed by individuals rendering professional services, who constituted
one fourth of retail accounts.

Other Services* 34.3%

Professionals** 25.7%

Financial Services 21.2%

Industrial/Manufacturing 11.1%

IT/BPO 3.9%

Government 2.1%

Agriculture 1.6%

*Refers to individuals who work as crews, cooks, OFWs, messengers, sales people, cashiers, drivers, domestic
helpers, and other labor-intensive jobs.

** Refers to individuals who work in the fields of administrative services, advertising, architecture, consultancy,
engineering, legal services, medical services, marketing, real estate and other corporate-related jobs.
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LOCATION
Total retail and online retail investors
remained concentrated in Metro Manila.

Luzon
Overseas
10.7% 1.7%
8.6% 1.7%

TOTAL ACCOUNTS
ONLINE ACCOUNTS

Visayas
3.7%
Metro Manila
81.5% 2.9%
84.6%

Mindanao
2.5%
2.3%
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RETAIL INVESTOR PROFILE

NATIONALITY
There was a significant presence of Chinese, American, and
Japanese investors in the stock market.

JAPANESE
12.6%

BRITISH
2.9% KOREAN
4.7%

CHINESE
23.9% TAIWANESE
AMERICAN OTHER
EUROPEAN 3.3%
14.7%
2.9%
OTHER ASEAN

MIDDLE EASTERN
3.6% SINGAPOREAN

0.3% 1.6%
OTHERS*
29.6%
*Refers to Australian, Indian, and Canadian citizens, among others
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