At the close of today’s trading session on the Nigerian Exchange Ltd (NGX), 333.95Million shares were traded in 9,187deals, amounting to a market value of N6.421Billion. Compared with the previous trading day (Monday November 18), today’s data shows a 19% decrease in volume, a 20% increase in value and a 2% increase in the number of deals. The Current equities market capitalization of the Nigerian Exchange Ltd is NGN59.37trillion, while the All-Share Index (ASI) closed at 97,972.33Basis points, increase 225.06Basis Points, representing a 0.23% increase, and a YTD increase of 31.02% as against the previous trading day’s close of 97,747.27Basis points.
Cumulatively, 123 NGX equities participated in trading, ending with 35 gainers and 24 losers. Lafarge Wapco led the gainers with 10% share price appreciation closing at NGN 50.60 per share, followed by Unilever Nigeria (+10%), Eunisell Interlinked (+9.94%) and SCOA Nigeria (+9.94%). On the losing side, PZ Cussons Nigeria came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of 9.82% at NGN 22.50 per share, followed by The Initiates (-8.7%), Berger Paints (-7.71%) and Honeywell Flour Mill (-4.85%). Access Holdings recorded the highest volume of 37.8 million traded shares, followed by Japaul Gold and Ventures (26.5m), Chams (23.7m) and Consolidated Hallmark Holdings (16.4m).
