The Spanish stock market closes a dream October. It has taken 18 years for the Ibex 35 to break its historical figures, sculpted in stone and not demolished in the imagination of investors. And it was costing him a lot, even though he was around them, to overcome them.
In October there was up to four times, three of them consecutively this weekso that a magical month closes with advances of 3.61% and a selective that marks gains of 38% accumulated so far this year, with Indra as the great exponent of the accumulated advances of 205% in the month, although today it has collected benefits.
With regard specifically to this session, business results and profit taking, As we alluded to in the case of the defense company, they have set the pace and the strong advances and cuts of some values at the close of the session.
The IBEX 35 ends on Friday with cuts of 0.05% to 16,032.60 points with the falls of values such as Mapfre 5.01%, Redeia (REE) 4% and Acerinox 2.87% and the increases experienced by companies such as Puig Brands B 9.32%, Caixabank 1.39% and Banco Sabadell 1.15% as well as IAG (Iberia).
As for the protagonists, Puig increases its sales at constant perimeter and exchange rates, what is known as LFL, by 7% while the figure is close to, between January and September of this year, 3.6 billion euros.
In the third quarter alone, the firm’s turnover of perfumery and cosmetics brands such as Rabanne, Carolina Herrera, Jean Paul Galtier and Nina Ricci highlights that its improvement is 6.1% to 1,297 million euros. In results that were known at the close of yesterday, and that have led it to rise almost double digits in the session.
Also among the most positive, Caixabank has obtained a net profit of 4,397 million euros between January and September 2025, after growing 3.5% compared to the same period of the previous year (4,248 million), thanks to the evolution of the business, driven by intense commercial activity in an environment of containment of interest rates.
And the bank that has closed the presentation of the sector, Unicaja, which increases its profit by 11.5%, to 503 million, and exceeds its annual objective. In September, the entity exceeded the annual objective of the Strategic Plan (500 million euros) and improved its profitability with a ROTE of 12.3% and a 3.5% higher gross margin.
Quite the opposite for Mapfre, the most punished in this Friday’s session, which has presented the results for the first nine months of 2025, a period in which a net profit of 829 million euros was recorded, with a growth of 26.8% compared to the same period of the previous year.
And the Board of Directors of Mapfre has agreed to pay an interim dividend against the results for fiscal year 2025 of 0.070 gross euros per share to all shares entitled to it, payable next November 28. In this way, the total dividend paid in 2025 will amount to 16.5 cents per share.
Acerinox obtained an attributable profit of 7 million euros in the first nine months of the year, which is 96% less than in the same period of the previous year. However, the group’s turnover was 4,473 million euros, 9% higher. The gross operating result (Ebitda) of the steel manufacturer reached 321 million euros between January and September, 8% less.
Already in the rest of Europe, widespread cuts, the EURO STOXX 50 loses 0.65% to 5,662 points, the CAC 40 falls 0.44% to 8,121 points, the Dax cede 0.65% to 23,974 points and el FT 100 It fell 0.42% at Friday’s close to 9,719 points.
And on Wall Street, with the Dow Jones at opening levels, advances for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, in the hangover from the publication of results of some of the magnificent ones, with the spectacular reading of those of Amazon, in a great closing of the month for the indicators, while the traditional indicator, despite hardly marking any changes, is heading towards its best monthly streak since 2018.
The technology company has exceeded expectations for the third quarter in both profits and revenues, also putting on the table a strong increase in cloud business. Earnings per share reached $1.95, compared to the expected $1.57, while revenue climbed to $180.17 billion, compared to the market’s estimate of $177.8 billion.
Apple posted increases of over 2% at the opening after also beating market expectations in its fourth fiscal quarter. The company earned earnings of $1.85 per share on revenue of $102.47 billion. Analysts had expected earnings of $1.77 per share and revenue of $102.24 billion.
At the close of the Spanish session, the DOW JONES lost 0.04% to 47,503 points, the S&P 500 rose 0.24% to 6,838 points and the Nasdaq OMX advanced 0.22% to 23,755 points.
In the rest of the market, we start with the fixed income market, with cuts in the 10-year Spanish bond, from 0.13% to 3.145% while in the case of the German bund, there are advances of just 0.03% to 2.6377%. The risk premium drops 0.53% and corrects to 50.61 basic points.
In raw materials, oil has a slight negative trend with a future for the Brent barrel that presents cuts of 0.11% to $64.29while West Texas places its price at $60.51, and gives up 0.10%. Gold fell 0.21% to $4,008 per ounce.
Bitcoin now moves with gains of 1.76% to $110,025 per asset. Finally, in the Euro Dollar relationship, it gives way to the single currency with cuts of 0.27% to 1.1534 units.