Foreign net selling on Vietnam’s HoSE reaches ₫24.024 trillion in October
Overseas ownership touched 12.93 per cent on October 19, the lowest point in data available since late October 2018.
October brought HoSE’s biggest monthly foreign net sales of 2026, at ₫24.024 trillion, five times the September amount. Overseas shareholdings on the Ho Chi Minh City exchange stood at about 13 per cent on October 29, following a record low earlier that month.
The October selling represented almost 20 per cent of net sales accumulated over January–October, which reached ₫121.905 trillion. Only August and September 2025 recorded larger monthly outflows in the data stretching back to late 2018.
Put-through transactions made up nearly 60 per cent of October’s net selling on HoSE, amounting to ₫14.203 trillion. Of that, ₫12.295 trillion came from the sessions held on October 6 and October 9.
Net sales through order matching reached ₫9.821 trillion, double September’s amount. Matched purchases totalled ₫31.071 trillion after falling 28 per cent, while sales were down 15 per cent at ₫40.892 trillion. In 19 sessions out of October’s 22, foreign selling exceeded buying.
Across the three markets—HoSE, HNX and UPCoM—October foreign net sales came to ₫20.848 trillion. The benchmark VN-Index ended the month down 27 points, or 1.53 per cent.
The ownership decline extended a longer retreat: foreign investors held 13.16 per cent at September’s end, compared with 14.69 per cent when 2025 closed. Their holdings had reached a peak of 21 per cent in February 2020.
An early-November survey covering 1,199 stocks, with fund certificates excluded, also showed uneven foreign participation. Overseas investors held no shares in 239 stocks, while 797 had foreign ownership below 1 per cent. The median holding was 0.26 per cent, against an average of 5.15 per cent.
