At the close of today’s trading session on the Nigerian Exchange Ltd (NGX), 709.28Million shares were traded in 13,593deals, amounting to a market value of N8.244Billion. Compared with the previous trading day (Thursday January 2), today’s data shows a 15% decrease in volume, a 45% increase in value and a 16% increase in the number of deals. The Current equities market capitalization of the Nigerian Exchange Ltd is NGN63.17trillion, while the All-Share Index (ASI) closed at 103,586.33Basis points, increase 406.19Basis Points, representing a 0.39% increase, and a YTD increase of 0.64% as against the previous trading day’s close of 103,180.14Basis points.
Cumulatively, 129 NGX equities participated in trading, ending with 68 gainers and 11 losers. NCR Nigeria led the gainers with 10% share price appreciation closing at NGN 6.05 per share, followed by Learn Africa (+10%), Abbey Mortgage Bank (+10%) and The Initiates (+10%). On the losing side, Total Nigeria came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of 9.74% at NGN 630.00 per share, followed by Computer Warehouse Group (-6.04%), Thomas Wyatt Nigeria (-5.26%) and Associated Bus Company (-4.07%). Chams recorded the highest volume of 58.1 million traded shares, followed by Veritas Kapital Assurance (55.1m), Abbey Mortgage Bank (50.1m) and Aiico Insurance (39.7m).
