Nigerian stock market dipped further on Monday to push the Exchange total market capitalisation below the N22 trillion mark.
Investors traded 422,180,395 shares valued at N4.470 billion in 5,059 transactions during the trading hours of Monday. While market value of all listed stocks dipped to N21.920 trillion, a decline of N83 billion from N22.003 trillion recorded on Friday.
The Nigerian Exchange All-Share Index depreciated by 0.38 percent to 42,008.6 index points on Monday from 42,167.91 index points it closed on Friday.
Sectorial analysis showed the NGX Banking Index lost 137bps on FIDELITY (-5.60%), UBA (-5.06%), UNITYBANK (-3.92%), ACCESS (-2.25%), STERLINGBANK (-0.68%) and GTCO (-0.62%).
The NGX Consumer Goods Index lost 34bps on UNILEVER (-4.00%), DANGSUGA (-3.13%) and HONYFLOUR (-1.14%). CHAMPION (+7.92%), INTBREW (+2.04%) and PZ (+0.84%) gained points.
The NGX Oil and Gas Index shed 11bps on ETERNA (-4.13%) and The NGX Industrial index shed 58bps on WAPCO (-9.94%).
A total of 10 stocks closed in the green, against 24 that closed in the red. The Exchange year-to-date return dropped to 4.32 percent. See other details below.
Top Five Gainers
| Symbols |
Last Close |
Current |
Change |
%Change |
| ROYALEX |
N 0.53 |
N 0.58 |
0.05 |
9.43 % |
| MEYER |
N 0.22 |
N 0.24 |
0.02 |
9.09 % |
| CHIPLC |
N 0.44 |
N 0.48 |
0.04 |
9.09 % |
| UPDC |
N 0.99 |
N 1.08 |
0.09 |
9.09 % |
| CHAMPION |
N 2.40 |
N 2.59 |
0.19 |
7.92 % |
Top Five Losers
| Symbols |
Last Close |
Current |
Change |
%Change |
| WAPCO |
N 24.65 |
N 22.20 |
-2.45 |
-9.94 % |
| LINKASSURE |
N 0.56 |
N 0.51 |
-0.05 |
-8.93 % |
| ABCTRANS |
N 0.34 |
N 0.31 |
-0.03 |
-8.82 % |
| VITAFOAM |
N 21.90 |
N 20.00 |
-1.90 |
-8.68 % |
| FIDELITYBK |
N 2.50 |
N 2.36 |
-0.14 |
-5.60 % |
Top Five Trades
| Symbols |
Volume |
Value |
| FBNH |
128865001.00 |
1505545599.55 |
| STERLNBANK |
77771509.00 |
115783870.97 |
| GTCO |
47789236.00 |
1146024189.75 |
| UCAP |
20960206.00 |
202723399.90 |
| UBA |
18593600.00 |
140000590.00 |