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Avoid Being Drawn into Social Media-Fuelled Stock Hysteria: deVere CEO

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Avoid Being Drawn into Social Media-Fuelled Stock Hysteria: deVere CEO

Investors need to exercise the utmost caution before joining social media-led stock frenzies, warned the CEO of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organisations.

The warning from Nigel Green, chief executive and founder of deVere Group, comes as a group of at-home retail investors on Reddit have been promoting a number of stocks, with the aim of squeezing short sellers that have been betting against them.

GameStop, AMC, Pearson, Blackberry, Nokia and Cineworld are amongst the targets.

GameStop’s stock has surged nearly 700% in the past two weeks, while Blackberry is up 185% and on track for its best month ever.

The Reddit community r/wallstreetbees, which has 2.8 million members, is full of users urging each other to keep pushing the stocks higher.

Mr Green says: “I would urge investors to exercise the utmost caution before joining social media-led stock frenzies of this nature.  The valuations can be expected to be extremely wild – in both directions – and there’s a legitimate risk that investors could get burned.”

He continues: “This is being pitched as a battle-play of Wall Street or The Square Mile versus The Little Guy.  However, this is not typically the way reasoned, savvy investors should strategise to create and build their portfolios in order to reach their financial goals.

“This is a dangerous game to play for retail investors.”

Earlier this week, the deVere CEO noted: “In today’s landscape, it is not the macro-bubble of which investors should be wary.

“Any potential bursting of bubbles is likely to be within specific stocks, so unlikely to rock the global financial markets as has happened previously – but individual investors could still be caught off-guard.

“Micro-bubble spotting, and diversification across asset class, sector, region and even currency, should become a priority for investors right now.”

Nigel Green concludes: “As ever, investors should work alongside a good fund manager to seek out those stocks most likely to generate and top-up their wealth over the long-term.

“I would avoid being drawn into the hysteria driven by social media.”

Is the CEO and Founder of Investors King Limited. He is a seasoned foreign exchange research analyst and a published author on Yahoo Finance, Business Insider, Nasdaq, Entrepreneur.com, Investorplace, and other prominent platforms. With over two decades of experience in global financial markets, Olukoya is well-recognized in the industry.

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Shares Reconstruction: Transcorp Lists Newly Reconstructed 10,161,997,574 Units of Ordinary Shares

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Transnational Corporation Plc (Transcorp) has delisted 40,647,990,293 shares from the Nigerian Exchange Limited on Monday and listed a newly reconstructed issued share capital of 10,161,997,574 ordinary shares.

In a statement seen by Investors King, the company said “We refer to our market bulletin with reference number NGXREG/IRD/MB73/24/10/10, dated 10 October 2024, wherein the Market was notified that trading in the shares of Transnational Corporation Plc (Transcorp or the Company) was placed on suspension effective, Thursday, 10 October 2024, in preparation for the share reconstruction of the Company’s Issued shares.

“The Market is hereby notified that the entire 40,647,990,293 issued shares of Transcorp were delisted from the Daily Official List of Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) on Monday, 28 October 2024, while the newly reconstructed issued share capital of 10,161,997,574 ordinary shares of 50 Kobo each were also today, listed on the Daily Official List of NGX at N44.2 per share.

“The delisting of 40,647,990,293 ordinary shares and listing of 10,161,997,574 ordinary shares on NGX is pursuant to the approval received from the Company’s shareholders at its Annual General Meeting of 27 May 2024 and the no-objection received from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

“Consequently, following the completion of the share reconstruction, the suspension placed on the securities of the Company has been lifted.”

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Transcorp Gains 314.03% Last Week Despite NGX Closing the Red

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Transnational Corporation Plc (Transcorp), Nigeria’s largest listed conglomerate, gained N34.70 or 313.03% a share last week to close at N45.75 a unit after the company’s unaudited financial statement for the third quarter showed 352% year-on-year growth in profit before tax to N34.566 billion.

During the week, investors on the floor of the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) transacted 2.717 billion shares worth N54.632 billion in 46,848 deals, against a total of 2.142 billion shares valued at N85.946 billion that exchanged hands in 41,217 deals in the previous week.

The Financial Services Industry led the activity chart with a combined 1.821 billion shares valued at N28.958 billion traded in 20,173 deals, therefore, contributing 67.01% and 53.01% to the total equity turnover volume and value, respectively.

The ICT Industry followed with 389.848 million shares worth N6.560 billion in 2,515 deals. In third place was the Conglomerates Industry with a turnover of 160.993 million shares worth N4.746 billion in 3,623 deals.

Fidelity Bank Plc, Chams Holding Company Plc and United Bank for Africa Plc accounted for 1.225 billion shares worth N17.721 billion in 4,912 deals and contributed 45.10% and 32.44% to the total equity turnover volume and value, respectively.

The NGX All-Share index closed the week in the red at 97,432.02 index points, a 2.03% decline from 99,448.91 index points recorded in the previous week. The Exchange year-to-date return moderated to 30.30%.

Also, the market capitalization of listed equities dipped by the same 2.03% from N60.261 trillion to N59.039 trillion.

Similarly, all other indices finished lower with the exception of NGX Banking, NGX AFR Bank Value, NGX AFR Div Yield, NGX MERI Growth, NGX MERI Value, NGX Oil & Gas and NGX Growth which appreciated by 0.19%, 1.76%, 1.52%, 0.16%, 0.48%, 1.15%, and 0.07% respectively while the NGX ASeM index closed flat.

Thirty-nine equities appreciated in price during the week lower than fifty-eight equities in the previous week. Forty-five equities depreciated in price higher than eighteen in the previous week, while sixty-eight equities remained unchanged, lower than seventy-six recorded in the previous week.

 

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Naira Depreciation and High Interest Rates Force Market Slowdown, Experts Say

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Stockbrokers and investors have abandoned the equity market due to the Naira volatility, lack of market drive towards the end of the year,  and the high interest rate in Nigeria.

A long-time investor, David Adonri explained that the volume of trade usually drops towards the end of the year but the market normalises in January.

With the persistent drop in the value of the Nigerian Naira against foreign currencies, investors are wary of unfavourable currency conversion.

“The equity market reacts to so many things. The depreciation of the naira, which is around N1,700, of course, would impact the market. The foreign exchange position can make people exit the market and convert to hard currency, which is stronger, possibly to come back to the market when they see an improved currency level. That is what we call carry-over trade,” Adonri said.

“We also have the hike in the interest rate, which also causes financial assets to migrate away from the capital market,” Adonri added.

“Third, we are in the period of the year, where seasonally, the market is a little bit down because there is nothing specific to drive the market like full-year results or half-year dividends and so on. So we slide to a low tempo from September up to November until after Christmas the market starts trending up again,” he further stated.

According to a report by the Nigerian Exchange Group (NGX), equity investment transactions dropped in Q3, 2024 compared to the previous quarter of the year.

In the same vein, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported that capital importation showed that investors shifted from equity investment to portfolio investment.

The portfolio investment includes equity, bonds, and money market instruments.

With the recent shift, the portfolio investment made a 10.37 percent increase amounting to a $106.85 million gain from the N1.03 billion total capital inflow.

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