Shares in the Ukrainian agricultural holding Astarta were halted on the Warsaw Stock Exchange on 20 October after a 19.14% drop in a single day. The Kyiv Independent, citing FT market data, writes that the stock fell about another 8% the next day. It is a trading halt and a more-than-two-year low. It is not a bankruptcy.

The price fell from 37.25 zloty to about 30.2 zloty, Interfax-Ukraine records from exchange data. The last similar level was in September 2024. In May the shares topped 60 zloty; they are now worth, the Kyiv Independent says, about half that peak. Volume before the halt: 1.52 million zloty.

In the same session the WIG-Ukraine index fell 3.38% and the WIG20 1.24%. IMC lost 9.21%; Agroton, KSG Agro and Milkiland lost less. Other names, the same market. They are not Astarta’s file.

The first half of 2026 shows a net loss of €14.07 million, against a profit of €42.27 million in the same stretch of 2025. Revenue was almost unchanged, at €226.5 million. The company puts the loss on cheaper sugar and milk and dearer soybean logistics, which offset growth in crop production. Exports: 62% of revenue. Listed in Warsaw since 2006.

The Kyiv Independent leaves open whether the fall is a reaction to a weak half-year or a deeper doubt. The answer, it writes, will come from the next results and from conditions in Ukraine. A trading halt does not wind up the holding.

Source consulted: Shares in one of Ukraine’s biggest farm companies fall to a two-year low — Kyiv Independent.

Image: the Warsaw Stock Exchange building, 4 Książęca Street, 16 April 2020, Adrian Grycuk, CC BY-SA 3.0 PL, Wikimedia Commons. The exchange, not the 20 October 2026 session.

Sources consulted: WSE suspends trading in Astarta shares after 19.1% drop — Interfax-Ukraine.