Top 10 EGX Egypt Stocks to Buy in 2026

Last updated: 15 June 2026 | Reading time: ~10 minutes

Egypt has been one of the standout stock markets of 2026. After a brutal stretch of currency devaluation and triple-digit confidence shocks in 2023–2024, the picture in 2026 looks very different. The benchmark EGX30 index has surged past the 50,000-point mark, hitting fresh record highs above 54,000 earlier this year and gaining roughly 50–60% over the trailing twelve months. The rally has been broad, but it has been led by exporters, banks and a handful of fast-growing fintech names — the same clusters that dominate this list.

The macro backdrop is the real story. The Egyptian pound, after its sharp 2024 float, has been broadly stable through 2026, trading in a rough EGP 45–49 per dollar range, and even appreciated against the dollar over 2025. Inflation, which once ran above 30%, is forecast to ease toward the high single digits to low teens this year as the Central Bank of Egypt continues to bring it back toward its 7% (±2%) target. The IMF programme, fiscal discipline and renewed foreign portfolio inflows have all helped restore confidence. A cheaper-but-stable pound is a double-edged sword: it has lifted the local-currency earnings of dollar exporters dramatically, while easing inflation gives banks and consumer names room to breathe.

This guide picks ten investable EGX names across banks, real estate, industrials, fertilizers, telecom, fintech and consumer staples. Browse the full universe and company pages on Mansa Markets Egypt, and if you want the rear-view mirror first, see our companion piece on the best-performing EGX Egypt stocks of 2025. For live prices — refreshed through each trading session — open any stock's page below; the figures quoted here are point-in-time context (some marked "~"), with the sector and market-cap picture as the substance of each pick.

## 1. Commercial International Bank (CIB) (EGX: COMI)

Sector: Banking | Dividend Yield: ~4–4.5%

CIB is the bluest of Egypt's blue chips — the largest private-sector bank and, at roughly E£465bn in market cap, by far the heaviest weight on the EGX30. For most foreign investors, CIB is the Egypt trade: it is the most liquid, most institutionally owned name on the exchange. The bank grew 2025 revenue around 12% to roughly E£128bn and continues to post sector-leading returns on equity, helped by high interest rates on its large book of government securities.

The 2026 thesis is a transition story. As the Central Bank begins easing rates from elevated levels, the market initially feared margin compression — but CIB's scale, low-cost deposit base and growing fee income give it room to defend profitability while loan demand recovers in a calmer macro environment. It paid a cash dividend (E£6.00 per share) in April 2026, putting its yield in the mid-single digits.

Why buy in 2026: The cleanest, most liquid proxy for Egypt's recovery, with best-in-class returns and a credible dividend.

## 2. Talaat Moustafa Group Holding (EGX: TMGH)

Sector: Real Estate & Hospitality | Dividend Yield: modest

TMG is Egypt's largest listed real-estate developer and the master-planner behind flagship communities like Madinaty and Celia. Property has historically been a favourite inflation hedge for Egyptian savers, and TMG's 2025 numbers showed why: net profit jumped 43% to around E£18.2bn on revenues of roughly E£62.5bn, with real-estate sales up 50% and the hotel division up 30%.

The group benefits from a huge contracted sales backlog that converts to revenue over several years, giving unusual earnings visibility for a developer. Its expanding recurring-income streams — hotels and the New Administrative Capital developments — diversify it beyond pure off-plan sales. With mortgage activity poised to recover as rates fall, TMG is geared to the domestic demand side of Egypt's 2026 story.

Why buy in 2026: Market-leading developer with a multi-year backlog and proven inflation-hedging appeal.

## 3. Elsewedy Electric (EGX: SWDY)

Sector: Industrials / Electrical Equipment | Dividend Yield: ~2%

Elsewedy is Egypt's industrial champion — cables, transformers, meters, wind power and large turnkey infrastructure and engineering projects across the Middle East and Africa. With a market cap around E£175bn, it is one of the EGX30's most important industrial weights and a partial export and hard-currency play, since a meaningful slice of its order book sits outside Egypt.

Recent quarterly results showed strong revenue and profit, and the group's diversification into infrastructure EPC and digital metering positions it well for regional electrification and grid-investment spending. A weaker pound flatters the local-currency value of its foreign contracts, while domestic infrastructure demand provides a second engine.

Why buy in 2026: A diversified industrial with a regional order book and a natural FX tailwind from foreign-currency revenues.

## 4. Telecom Egypt (EGX: ETEL)

Sector: Telecommunications | Dividend Yield: ~4%

Telecom Egypt is the country's integrated telecoms incumbent — fixed line, mobile (WE), and crucially, a vast network of international submarine-cable landing infrastructure that earns hard currency. That subsea and wholesale connectivity business makes ETEL one of the more interesting FX-hedged defensives on the EGX.

The 2025 numbers were striking: revenue rose roughly 31% to around E£107bn while net earnings surged on the back of operational gains and revaluation effects. The company pays a steady dividend and trades as a relatively defensive, cash-generative name — attractive in a year where investors want growth that does not depend entirely on the consumer.

Why buy in 2026: Defensive cash generation, a solid dividend, and a hard-currency international connectivity business.

## 5. Misr Fertilizers Production (MOPCO) (EGX: MFPC)

Sector: Fertilizers / Petrochemicals | Dividend Yield: typically high

MOPCO is one of Egypt's two large listed nitrogen producers and sits at the heart of 2026's defining EGX theme: fertilizer exporters as an EGP hedge. Urea and ammonia are priced in dollars on the global market, so a weak-but-stable pound inflates local-currency revenue while much of the cost base is domestic. When global nitrogen prices spike — as they did in early 2026 amid regional supply shocks — the operating leverage is powerful.

There is a real risk to flag: Egyptian fertilizer plants faced repeated natural-gas curtailments through 2025 and into 2026, with producers like MOPCO and Abu Qir periodically running at reduced rates. The government is also moving to link feedstock gas costs to international prices, which could pressure margins. Production has largely continued as LNG imports backfilled supply, but gas availability is the key variable to watch.

Why buy in 2026: A leveraged play on dollar-priced fertilizer exports and a weak pound — sized to your tolerance for gas-supply risk.

## 6. Abu Qir Fertilizers (EGX: ABUK)

Sector: Fertilizers | Dividend Yield: historically generous

Abu Qir is the other half of Egypt's fertilizer-export duopoly and a long-standing favourite among Egyptian dividend investors. The export thesis is identical to MOPCO's, and the recent fundamentals back it up: net profit rose 15% year-on-year to around E£5.1bn in the first half of FY2025/26, with net sales up 28%, and the board has guided to higher revenues for 2026.

Like MOPCO, Abu Qir suspended operations more than once in 2025–2026 when gas pressure in the national grid dropped, a reminder that the upside comes with feedstock risk. But for investors who want direct exposure to dollar-linked commodity earnings combined with one of the EGX's more reliable dividend track records, ABUK remains a core fertilizer holding.

Why buy in 2026: Strong, growing export-driven earnings and a generous dividend history — the classic EGP-hedge stock.

## 7. QNB Alahli (EGX: QNBE)

Sector: Banking | Dividend Yield: moderate

QNB Alahli is the Egyptian arm of Qatar National Bank, the Gulf's largest lender, and the second bank on this list. It offers a slightly different flavour from CIB: strong Gulf parentage, deep corporate-banking relationships and access to regional capital. At roughly E£102bn in market cap it is large, liquid and well-capitalised.

The same macro tailwinds that benefit CIB apply here — wide net interest margins from high government-securities yields, easing inflation and a recovering loan environment. QNB Alahli's backing by a heavyweight regional parent adds a layer of stability and is part of the broader Gulf-into-Egypt capital flow that has supported the market. For investors who want bank exposure beyond a single name, it is the natural complement to CIB.

Why buy in 2026: A well-capitalised bank with strong Gulf parentage, riding the same rate-and-recovery dynamics as CIB.

## 8. e-finance for Digital & Financial Investments (EGX: EFIH)

Sector: Fintech / Digital Payments | Dividend Yield: low (growth name)

e-finance is the technology backbone of Egypt's digital-government and financial-inclusion drive — it builds and operates the rails for state payments, tax collection, fuel subsidies and a growing stack of digital financial services. As Egypt pushes cash out of the economy, e-finance is structurally positioned to grow faster than the broader market.

The 2025 results delivered: consolidated net profit rose around 35% to about E£2.4bn on revenue of roughly E£6.8bn. This is a growth stock rather than a yield play, but it gives the portfolio exposure to a secular digitisation theme that is far less dependent on commodity prices or interest-rate cycles. To understand where a name like this sits in the market's structure, our Egyptian Exchange (EGX) guide is a useful primer.

Why buy in 2026: A structural growth play on Egypt's cashless and digital-government transition, with proven profit momentum.

## 9. Fawry for Banking Technology (EGX: FWRY)

Sector: Fintech / Payments | Dividend Yield: low (growth name)

Fawry is Egypt's best-known consumer-facing fintech — a sprawling network of payment points, a digital wallet, merchant acquiring, micro-lending and banking-as-a-service. If e-finance is the government's rails, Fawry is the everyday payments layer for households and small businesses.

FY2025 was a record year: revenue grew 57% to around E£8.65bn and net profit jumped roughly 80% to about E£2.9bn, with the highest margins in the company's history (an EBITDA margin above 57%). The growth is increasingly driven by higher-margin financial services rather than just transaction processing. As a smaller, faster-moving fintech, Fawry carries more volatility than the blue chips here — but it offers some of the strongest top- and bottom-line growth on the entire exchange.

Why buy in 2026: Explosive, record-breaking growth in payments and digital financial services, with rapidly expanding margins.

## 10. Eastern Company (EGX: EAST)

Sector: Consumer Staples / Tobacco | Dividend Yield: historically high

Eastern Company rounds out the list as the defensive consumer anchor. It holds a near-monopoly on tobacco manufacturing in Egypt — a classic staple with pricing power, resilient demand and a long history of fat dividends. In an inflationary, uncertain market, that combination has made it a perennial favourite for income-focused Egyptian investors.

The fundamentals are robust: Eastern reported record net profit of around E£9.7bn for the fiscal year ended June 2025 on sales of roughly E£37bn, and profits kept rising double-digits into the new fiscal year. Tobacco's defensive, inelastic demand and Eastern's ability to pass through price increases make it a low-beta ballast against the higher-octane fintech and fertilizer names elsewhere in this list.

Why buy in 2026: A defensive, cash-rich near-monopoly with pricing power and one of the most dependable dividends on the EGX.

## The bottom line

Egypt enters the second half of 2026 with genuine momentum: a record-setting EGX30, a stabilising pound, cooling inflation and continued IMF and Gulf support. The most attractive setups cluster in three buckets — banks (CIB, QNB Alahli) geared to a recovering economy, dollar-linked exporters (the fertilizer pair MOPCO and Abu Qir, plus Elsewedy and Telecom Egypt) that turn a weak pound into a tailwind, and structural growth in fintech (e-finance, Fawry), balanced by defensive ballast in TMG and Eastern Company. Mind the specific risks — fertilizer gas curtailments and the path of interest rates chief among them.

For company pages, sector breakdowns and the wider African investing picture, head to Mansa Markets Egypt and our deep dive on why the EGX is Africa's oldest stock market.

This article is for information only and is not investment advice; do your own research and consider professional guidance before buying any security.