In today's trading session (June 17), foreign investors continued to increase pressure on the stock market when net selling reached more than 3,200 billion VND in the session, nearly 8 times higher than the previous session, with the focus being on "discharging" large-cap VIC stocks.
On the HOSE exchange, foreign investors bought 49.2 million units, with a total value of 1,646.2 billion VND. In the opposite direction, this block sold 78.4 million units, with a value of 4,820.6 billion VND.
Accordingly, foreign investors net sold 29.2 million units, with a corresponding net selling value of 3,170.4 billion VND, more than 3 times higher in volume and 7.6 times higher in value compared to yesterday's session on June 16.
Today, foreign investors net bought the strongest HPG stock with a volume of 2.3 million units, with a net buying value of 55 billion VND.Meanwhile, this block net sold the strongest VIC stock with a volume of 11.55 million units, with a net selling value of nearly 2,237 billion VND.
On the HNX exchange, foreign investors bought 1.04 million units, with a value of 28.97 billion VND, and sold 1.82 million units, with a selling value of 53.83 billion VND.Equivalently, foreign investors net sold 0.78 million units, with a corresponding net selling value of 24.86 billion VND.
In the first trading session of the week (June 15), foreign investors bought more than 4,000 billion VND, reaching a record high in one trading session.With that signal, investors once hoped this was a reversal signal after a long period of strong net selling.It is estimated that this group has net sold about 75,000 billion VND (equivalent to 2.9 billion USD) from the beginning of the year to now.
In which, foreign investors withdrew the most capital from banks, real estate and technology because these are industries facing fluctuations in the internal business environment.In the banking and real estate groups, there is a bottleneck in monetary policy and the high interest rate environment, while in the technology group, there is an issue related to AI.
However, the current net selling status does not mean that the door to foreign capital is gradually closing. The market is entering a stage that investors are particularly interested in before the upgrade milestone taking effect from September 21, 2026. In the view of many institutional investors, Q2 and Q3/2026 are important stages to prepare positions before the market is officially put into a new group.
This makes the current period a particularly meaningful "buffer zone".If well utilized, Vietnam can shift from a state of prolonged net selling to a state of gradual accumulation before official cash flow enters the index baskets.
