Nigerian Stock Exchange Leads Global Stocks, Year-to-date Gain Increased to 30% Last Week

Nigerian Stock Exchange sustained its bullish momentum last week as investors traded a total turnover of 1.816 billion shares valued at N25.791 billion in 31,665 deals.

This was below the 11.400 billion shares worth N35.892 billion transacted in 39,265 deals in the previous week. However, the Exchange managed to sustain its global lead as sentiment remained high despite the economic recession and a series of other uncertainties.

In terms of volume traded, the financial services industry led with 1.274 billion shares estimated at N14.710 billion that exchanged hands in 18,392 deals. Therefore, contributing 70.15 percent and 57.04 percent to the total equity turnover volume and value, respectively.

The conglomerates industry followed with 217.170 million shares valued at N231.809 million and exchanged in 1,226 deals. In third place was the consumer goods industry with a turnover of 113.760 million shares valued at N2.598 billion in 4,568 deals.

Zenith Bank Plc, Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc and Access Bank Plc led the most traded stocks in terms of volume. Together, the three accounted for 649.529 million shares valued at N8.104 billion in 6,395 deals and contributed 35.76 percent and 31.42 percent to the total equity turnover volume and value, respectively.

The market capitalisation of listed equities expanded by 2.19 percent to settle at N18.228 trillion while the NSE All-Share Index also gained 2.19 percent or 748.69 index points to 34,885.51 index points, up from 34,136.82 index points recorded in the previous week.

The bourse year to date return rose to 29.97 percent, the highest performer among Bloomberg tracked 93 global stocks. NSE Premium index led with 47.85 percent year-to-date gain while the NSE AFR Div Yield Index trailed with 47.82 percent gain. See the list of top gainers and losers for the week below.