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JSE South Africa Stock Screener — Top 40 Quotes & Fundamentals

Bloomberg Terminal alternative for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) — the largest stock market in Africa by market capitalization and the 19th-largest in the world. Pull every FTSE/JSE Top 40 constituent or the entire ~250-name JSE main-board universe in one structured dataset: price (both ZAR cents and rands), percent change, market cap (ZAR and USD), revenue, P/E ratio, EPS, dividend yield, sector, industry, 52-week range, beta, RSI, and more — at a fraction of the cost of a Bloomberg, FactSet, LSEG Workspace, or Refinitiv Eikon seat.

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Built for South African asset managers, EM-focused hedge funds, Africa-frontier-market PE shops, mining-and-resources analysts, sovereign wealth fund EM desks, quant researchers, ETF builders, Sub-Saharan thematic investors, and African equity-research teams who need clean, structured, programmatic access to JSE-listed equities — without paying $24,000/year for a terminal license.

Why NexGenData JSE South Africa Screener Beats Bloomberg Terminal, Refinitiv Eikon, and FactSet

Why JSE matters

The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) is the dominant capital market for the African continent and one of the most institutionally developed exchanges in any emerging market. Founded in 1887 during the Witwatersrand gold rush, it has been continuously operating for over 135 years and remains the gateway into African mining, financials, and consumer themes. It is home to:

• Naspers (NPN) — one of the largest tech holding companies outside FAANG/BAT by virtue of its ~28% indirect stake in Tencent through subsidiary Prosus (PRX). At various points, Naspers has been so large it represented more than 20% of the JSE Top 40 by weight, prompting MSCI methodology adjustments.
• Prosus (PRX) — Naspers' Amsterdam-listed tech spin-off, dual-listed on JSE; holds the direct Tencent stake plus a portfolio of food-delivery, classifieds, and fintech investments globally.
• BHP Group (BHG) — the world's largest mining company by market cap, dual-listed on JSE and ASX/LSE; the single biggest weight on the JSE main board.
• Anglo American (AGL) — diversified mining super-major (copper, iron ore, diamonds via De Beers, platinum, nickel) with Anglo-South African heritage going back to 1917.
• Standard Bank (SBK), FirstRand (FSR), Absa (ABG), Nedbank (NED), Capitec (CPI) — the South African "Big-Five" banking franchises with extensive sub-Saharan footprints.
• Sasol (SOL) — synthetic fuels and chemicals giant, originally born from apartheid-era oil sanctions; turns coal and natural gas into liquid fuels at industrial scale.
• Gold Fields (GFI), AngloGold Ashanti (ANG), Harmony Gold (HAR), Sibanye-Stillwater (SSW) — gold-mining majors; South Africa was the world's largest gold producer for most of the 20th century.
• Anglo American Platinum (AMS), Impala Platinum (IMP), Northam Platinum (NPH) — platinum-group metals (PGM) majors; South Africa produces ~70% of the world's platinum.
• MTN Group (MTN), Vodacom (VOD) — pan-African mobile telecoms with over 300M subscribers across 20+ countries.
• Discovery (DSY), Sanlam (SLM), Old Mutual (OMU) — South African insurance, healthcare, and savings franchises pioneering programs like Vitality.
• Shoprite (SHP), Woolworths (WHL), Mr Price (MRP), Pick n Pay (PIK) — South African consumer retail giants serving the African continent.

The FTSE/JSE Top 40 Index is the headline South African blue-chip benchmark, comparable to the FTSE 100 in the UK, the Nikkei 225 in Japan, the S&P/ASX 200 in Australia, or the BOVESPA Top in Brazil. South Africa is an MSCI Emerging Markets constituent and a core EM bucket weight, attracting tens of billions of dollars of passive inflows from EM ETFs every year.

What you get per stock

Every record returned is a complete JSE-equity snapshot pulled in real time from a server-rendered listing source. Listing pass (always included):

• symbol — 3-letter JSE ticker (e.g. NPN Naspers, PRX Prosus, BHG BHP, AGL Anglo American, SBK Standard Bank, GFI Gold Fields)
• name — full legal company name
• ticker_yahoo — Yahoo Finance ticker with .JO suffix (e.g. NPN.JO, BHG.JO, GFI.JO) for cross-referencing with Yahoo, Google Finance, Investing.com
• price_zac — last traded price in ZAR cents (ZAc — JSE native convention, same as LSE pence)
• price_zar — same price converted to rands (= price_zac / 100) for convenience
• price_usd — same price translated to USD using the recorded fx_rate_zar_per_usd
• pct_change — intraday % change
• market_cap_zar — absolute market capitalization in ZAR rands
• market_cap_billion_zar — same value in billions ZAR
• market_cap_billion_usd — derived USD market cap (B USD)
• revenue_ttm_zar, revenue_ttm_billion_zar, revenue_ttm_billion_usd — trailing-12-month revenue figures
• is_top40 — boolean, true for FTSE/JSE Top 40 large-cap constituents
• is_native_jse — boolean, distinguishes 3-letter native JSE tickers
• stockanalysis_url, yahoo_finance_url, jse_url — direct deep-links to the three most-used data sources for South African equities
• scraped_at, exchange, country, currency, price_unit, fx_rate_zar_per_usd — provenance, units, and the FX rate applied

Fundamentals pass (when enrich_fundamentals=true — one extra HTTP request per stock):

• pe_ratio, forward_pe, pb_ratio, eps_zar
• net_income_zar, shares_outstanding
• dividend_zar, dividend_yield_pct, ex_dividend_date
• volume, avg_volume, previous_close_zac/previous_close_zar, open_zac/open_zar
• week52_low_zac/week52_low_zar, week52_high_zac/week52_high_zar, day_low_zac/day_low_zar, day_high_zac/day_high_zar
• beta, rsi, earnings_date
• sector, industry (required for sector keyword filtering)

Inputs

Recipe examples

FTSE/JSE Top 40 daily snapshot (lightweight, blue-chip basket):

{"index":"Top40","limit":40}

Returns the Top 40 JSE constituents with price, market cap, % change — no enrichment overhead. Perfect for a daily South Africa portfolio dashboard or a market-open digest.

South African Big-5 banks (Standard Bank, FirstRand, Absa, Nedbank, Capitec):

{"index":"Top40","limit":40,"sector":"bank","enrich_fundamentals":true}

Returns all major South African banks with full fundamentals so you can compare P/E, P/B, dividend yields side-by-side. South African banks are famous for high ROEs and generous dividend payouts despite an EM risk premium.

Full JSE universe sweep:

{"index":"JSE-all","limit":300}

Mega-caps only (R100B+ ≈ $5.4B+):

{"index":"JSE-all","min_market_cap_zar_billion":100,"limit":20}

South African gold miners (Gold Fields, AngloGold, Harmony, Sibanye-Stillwater):

{"index":"Top40","sector":"gold","enrich_fundamentals":true}

Platinum-group metals (Anglo Platinum, Impala, Northam):

{"index":"Top40","sector":"platinum","enrich_fundamentals":true}

Mining super-majors (BHP, Anglo American, Glencore):

{"index":"Top40","sector":"mining","enrich_fundamentals":true}

Tech / media (Naspers, Prosus, MultiChoice):

{"index":"Top40","sector":"media","enrich_fundamentals":true}

Pan-African telecom (MTN, Vodacom):

{"index":"Top40","sector":"telecom","enrich_fundamentals":true}

South African consumer (Shoprite, Woolworths, Mr Price, Tiger Brands):

{"index":"Top40","sector":"retail","enrich_fundamentals":true}

How it works

The actor scrapes stockanalysis.com/list/johannesburg-stock-exchange/, a clean server-rendered universe page that aggregates every JSE-listed name sorted by market cap. The full ~250-stock universe fits on a single page, so no pagination is required — we get the entire JSE in one HTTP request. We then filter by index scope (Top 40 vs full JSE), market-cap floor, and (optionally) sector keyword.

When enrich_fundamentals=true, we additionally hit each stock's /quote/jse/{symbol}/ detail page, parse the structured statistics tables, and add P/E, EPS, dividend, 52-week range, beta, sector, and industry to each record. Enrichment runs at concurrency 5 to be a polite scraper. Typical runtime: 10 stocks ≈ 5 seconds without enrichment, ~15 seconds with.

Top 40 membership — The actor ships with the FTSE/JSE Top 40 constituent list embedded for instant is_top40 flagging and index=Top40 filtering. We also apply a fallback large-cap rule (≥R50B market cap) so that any Top 40 member missing from the embedded list still gets included.

ZAR cents (ZAc) vs ZAR rands — JSE quotes share prices in South African cents (ZAc), not rands. This is the same convention as the London Stock Exchange's pence (GBX). Example: BHP Group at "69,174" means ZAc 69,174 = R691.74. Market caps, revenues, dividends are quoted in ZAR rands (with T/B/M/K multipliers). We surface both price_zac (raw cents) and price_zar (rands) on every record so you can plug into either convention without manual conversion — and we annotate price_unit: "ZAc (cents)" for unambiguous documentation.

FX rate — The South African rand is free-floating (no peg). The rand historically trades in a 15-20 ZAR/USD band but can swing materially on EM risk-off, commodity cycles, and South African political news. We use a default fx_rate_zar_per_usd of 18.5 for derived USD figures and record it on every output row for transparency and auditability. Override locally if you need a tighter mark-to-market.

Native ticker filter — JSE tickers are uniformly 2-5 letter alphabetic codes (e.g. NPN, PRX, BHG, ANG, GFI). We filter to that pattern by default to keep the universe clean and skip any aberrant or non-equity rows.

Pricing — Pay Per Event

This actor uses Apify's Pay-Per-Event pricing — you only pay for what you actually pull, no monthly fees, no commitments, no annual contracts. Compare that to Bloomberg Terminal at ~$2,000/month per seat, LSEG Workspace at ~$1,800/month, or FactSet at ~$1,500/month: even pulling the full JSE universe every trading day, you'd recover the cost in well under a week of analyst time saved.

Worked examples (USD):

• 10-stock smoke test: $0.01 + 10 × $0.25 = $2.51
• FTSE/JSE Top 40 sweep: $0.01 + 40 × $0.25 = $10.01
• Top 100 with fundamentals: $0.01 + 100 × $0.25 = $25.01
• Full JSE universe (~250 names): $0.01 + 250 × $0.25 = $62.51

For comparison, a single Bloomberg Terminal seat is ~$24,000/year. This actor delivers equivalent South African equity coverage at well under 1% of that, with no contract, no minimum, and no negotiation.

Use cases

• EM-focused asset managers — refresh JSE universes hourly, intraday, or daily; drop directly into your DuckDB / Snowflake / BigQuery warehouse for portfolio attribution and risk monitoring.
• Africa-frontier hedge funds — track JSE flow, dividend cycles, ex-dividend dates, and sub-Saharan sector themes (gold, platinum, copper, telecom, fintech).
• Mining-and-resources analysts — South Africa is the world's largest platinum producer, top-10 gold producer, and a major copper/iron ore exporter. Build mining theme baskets across BHP, Anglo, Glencore, Gold Fields, AngloGold, Anglo Platinum, Impala, Sibanye-Stillwater, and Exxaro in a single API call.
• Quant signal research — backtest JSE Top 40 signals (momentum, value, dividend, quality, low-vol, resources-vs-non-resources baskets) on consistent point-in-time snapshots.
• EM ETF construction — build a custom South Africa-tilt ETF basket weighted by your own factor model; check tracking vs. iShares MSCI South Africa ETF (EZA) or VanEck Africa Index ETF (AFK).
• Equity research desks — feed a South African sector dashboard (banks, mining, retail, telecom, healthcare, property) without paying for a market-data terminal.
• Sovereign wealth fund EM desks — South Africa is a core MSCI EM weight; refresh holdings programmatically every market close.
• Fintech apps & robo-advisors — power a South Africa or sub-Saharan stock-screener feature inside an investing app, neobank, or newsletter aimed at SA, Nigerian, Kenyan, or diaspora investors.
• Africa-focused PE & VC firms — track JSE-listed comps for valuation benchmarking when scoping deals on the continent.
• Compliance, treasury & FX — verify holdings, monitor index inclusion changes (MSCI EM, FTSE Russell), track corporate actions on JSE constituents.
• News / media / family office — generate "JSE winners and losers" tables programmatically every market close (Mon–Fri 09:00–17:00 SAST).

Output schema (sample record)

{
"symbol":"NPN",
"name":"Naspers Limited",
"ticker_yahoo":"NPN.JO",
"price_zac":91850.0,
"price_zar":918.50,
"price_usd":49.6486,
"pct_change":-0.42,
"market_cap_zar":676290000000,
"market_cap_billion_zar":676.29,
"market_cap_billion_usd":36.5562,
"market_cap_display":"676.29B",
"revenue_ttm_zar":135680000000,
"revenue_ttm_billion_zar":135.68,
"revenue_ttm_billion_usd":7.3341,
"is_top40":true,
"is_native_jse":true,
"stockanalysis_url":"https://stockanalysis.com/quote/jse/NPN/",
"yahoo_finance_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NPN.JO",
"jse_url":"https://www.jse.co.za/listed-companies/equities/NPN",
"pe_ratio":7.57,
"forward_pe":10.49,
"eps_zar":117.31,
"dividend_zar":1.02,
"dividend_yield_pct":0.11,
"ex_dividend_date":"Dec 3, 2025",
"beta":0.73,
"rsi":46.53,
"week52_low_zac":83751,
"week52_high_zac":131144,
"week52_low_zar":837.51,
"week52_high_zar":1311.44,
"sector":"Communication Services",
"industry":"Internet Content Information",
"exchange":"JSE",
"exchange_full":"Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)",
"country":"South Africa",
"currency":"ZAR",
"currency_full":"South African Rand",
"price_unit":"ZAc (cents)",
"fx_rate_zar_per_usd":18.5,
"scraped_at":"2026-05-10T12:00:00Z"
}

FAQ

What are JSE market hours? Monday through Friday, 09:00 to 17:00 South African Standard Time (SAST = UTC+2). JSE is closed on South African public holidays — Family Day (Easter Monday), Freedom Day (27 April), Workers' Day (1 May), Youth Day (16 June), National Women's Day (9 August), Heritage Day (24 September), Day of Reconciliation (16 December), Christmas, Day of Goodwill (26 December), and New Year. Run this actor anytime; quotes are last-close outside market hours.

Why ZAR cents (ZAc) and rands (R) both? JSE quotes share prices in South African cents by convention — the same way the London Stock Exchange quotes in pence (GBX). A price of 91,850 means ZAc 91,850 = R918.50. We surface both price_zac (raw, matches what you see on jse.co.za / Yahoo Finance / Reuters tickers) and price_zar (rands, useful for spreadsheets and order-management systems that expect rands).

Why is the rand so volatile? The South African rand is free-floating and historically one of the most volatile EM currencies — it trades on commodity cycles (gold, platinum, iron ore), EM risk-on/risk-off flows, US dollar strength (DXY), South African political news (loadshedding, ANC factional politics, fiscal slippage), and rate differentials. We record fx_rate_zar_per_usd on every row so you know exactly what rate was applied at scrape time.

What are dual-listed JSE stocks? Many of the biggest JSE names are also listed in London (BHP — BHP/BHG, Anglo American — AAL/AGL, Glencore — GLEN/GLN, Anheuser-Busch — ABI/ANH, Richemont — CFR/CFR, Mondi — MNDI/MNP, BAT — BATS/BTI). They trade fungibly across exchanges, with the LSE leg priced in GBX. Use this actor for the JSE leg; pair with our LSE UK Stock Screener for the London leg.

What's the FTSE/JSE Top 40? The headline South African blue-chip index, the 40 largest JSE-listed stocks by free-float-adjusted market cap. Reconstituted quarterly. Heavily concentrated in resources, financials, and consumer staples. The Top 40 captures roughly 80% of JSE total market cap.

ESG / Sin stocks? JSE has tobacco (BAT — BTI), brewers (Anheuser-Busch — ANH), and gambling (Sun International — SUI). Use the sector filter to include/exclude these for ESG mandates.

Rate limits / blocking? We use Apify's datacenter proxy by default. Stockanalysis.com is generally cooperative. If you hit any limit, switch to RESIDENTIAL group in proxy config.

Can I run this on a schedule? Yes — every Apify actor supports cron scheduling. Run it at 17:30 SAST daily (15:30 UTC) for a JSE market-close snapshot.

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