Nigerian Stock Exchange Gained N181 Billion This Week

The Nigerian Stock Exchange gained for five consecutive days this week to close the week strong. This is coming amid mixed second-quarter earnings reports from various listed companies.

The Exchange gained N181 billion or 1.41 percent from N12.882 trillion it closed last week before the Sallah holiday to N13.063 trillion this week. While the market capitalisation of listed stocks expanded by 1.41 percent or 348.16 basis points from 24,693.7 bps it closed last week to 25,041.89 bps this week.

During the week, investors traded 1.065 billion shares valued at N10.798 billion in 20,482 transactions, more than the 421.984 million shares valued at N5.337 billion that were traded in 11,801 deals in the previous week.

The sectoral analysis showed the Financial Services sector led in terms of volume traded with 677.301 million shares worth N5.070 billion in 10,386 deals. Therefore, contributing 63.59 percent and 46.95 percent to the total volume traded for the week.

This was followed by the Conglomerates sector with 153.384 million shares worth N580.216 million exchanged in 894 transactions. Industrial Good sector came third with 57.404 million shares valued at N861.263 million traded in 1,671 deals.

In terms of the most traded equities, FBN Holdings Plc, UACN Plc and Access Bank Plc led with a combined 320.196 million shares worth N1.802 billion in 2,639 deals. The three contributed 30.06 percent and 16.69 percent to the total equity turnover volume and value, respectively.

A break down of the week turnover revealed that investors traded 186,481,739 shares valued at N1,309,755,694 in 4,718 transactions on Monday. On Tuesday, a total turnover of 154,467,244 shares worth N1,457,531,880 was exchanged in 4,222 deals.

Investors traded 383,289,488, 173,748,425, and 167,139,054 shares valued at N3,892,572,516, N2,132,848,753 and N2,005,566,396 in 3,860 deals, 3,646 deals and 4,036 deals on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, respectively.

So far this quarter, the bourse has gained 2.30 percent to moderate the year-to-date decline to 6.71 percent.