If you’re an investor in the Netherlands, the last three months were probably the best your portfolio has seen in years.
New figures from De Nederlandsche Bank (the Dutch central bank) show that the total value of household investments jumped more than 12% between April and June.
Added up, the total hit a whopping €234.2 billion, marking the “strongest increase” since DNB first started tracking these figures.
What’s behind the jump?
The short version, as reported by DNB, is due to a sharp rise in stock prices — with Dutch investors essentially holding the right stocks at exactly the right time.
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In fact, a very small part of that 12% can be attributed to people buying more stock, as transactions added a mere €1.5 billion to the multi-billion value.
These were the hottest investments
A few big names hit the stock market recently, and Dutch households were quick to purchase them.
Top of the list was Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, which floated on the NASDAQ this June, in what was billed as the largest listing ever.
Investors in the Netherlands were hot on the jump, buying up €169 million worth of SpaceX shares, the highest number of purchases in DNB’s database. They were equally quick on the trigger when it came to selling, parting ways with €100 million worth of SpaceX shares in June alone.
Helaas, what goes up has an awful habit of coming back down again, and the total value of SpaceX shares subsequently plummeted to €71 million after sales, capital gains, and exchange rate effects.
And while Magnum didn’t make as big a splash as SpaceX, it’s now the stock that Dutch households hold the most of, at approximately €100 million in its first month alone. The ice cream company got its own listing in Amsterdam at Euronext, after splitting from Unilever in late 2025.
Rounding up the big three is CSG (or Czechoslovak Group), a European defence, aerospace, and industrial manufacturing company, also listed on Euronext. At the end of its introductory month, Dutch households held roughly €72 million worth of CSG stocks.
But the Dutch are still savers at heart
While SpaceX and Magnum may be popular on the stock exchange, Dutch households aren’t easing their grasp on their savings accounts just yet.
According to DNB, households have “significantly more savings in savings accounts”, to the tune of €552.6 billion. Current accounts, meanwhile, hold about half as much as all Dutch investments — at €113.2 billion.
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In other words, investing is still a bit of a minority sport, with the AFM reporting that only a quarter of the Netherlands’ 8.4 million private households invest at all.
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