John Okoh, Lagos
Activities on the floor of Nigerian Stock Exchange on Monday, witnessed another improvement as the key market indicators opened the second week in the month of July on a positive note.
The All Share Index (NSE ASI) and the Market Capitalization increased by 0.48 percent, while the Year-to-Date return stood at 21.36 percent.
The ASI closed at 32,614.60 against the previous close of 32,459.17 while Market Capitalization closed at ₦11.241 trillion against previous close of ₦11.187 trillion.
Volume traded decreased by 14.27 percent from 212.384 million to 182.071 million, while the total value of stock traded decreased by 18.06 percent from ₦2.474 billion to ₦2.028 billion in 3,710 deals.
The Financial Services sector led the activity chart with 135.265 million shares exchanged for ₦1.556 billion. Consumer Goods came next with 12.831 million shares traded for ₦0.268 billion, Conglomerates, Healthcare, Construction/Real Estate sectors followed in that order on the activity chart.
Guaranty Trust Bank Plc, FCMB Holding Plc, Zenith Bank Plc, Diamond Bank Plc and FBN Holding Plc were the most active stocks by volume.
Flourmill Nigeria Plc, C & I Leasing Plc, Redstar express Plc, United Bank for Africa and Access Bank Plc emerged the highest price gainers on the chart, while Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, Skye Bank Plc, University Press Plc, AG Leventis Plc and Vitafoam Plc topped the loser’s chart.
In all 105 companies shares were traded on, with 26 gainers and 15 losers while 64 companies share prices did not change.
TOP FIVE GAINERS ON MONDAY JULY 10, 2017
PREVIOUS PRICE CURRENT PRICE
FLOURMILL 22.78 25.00
CILEASING 0.60 0.63
REDSTAREX 5.00 5.25
UBA 8.50 8.92
ACCESS 9.13 9.58
TOP FIVE LOSERS ON MONDAY JULY 10, 2017
PREVIOUS PRICE CURRENT PRICE
UBN 6.12 5.58
SKYEBANK 0.60 0.57
UPL 3.40 3.23
AGLEVENT 0.82 0.78
VITAFOAM 2.70 2.57
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