At the close of today’s trading session on the Nigerian Exchange Ltd (NGX), 295.19Million shares were traded in 8,433deals, amounting to a market value of N6.768Billion. Compared with the previous trading day (Thursday November 14), today’s data shows a 1% increase in volume, a 13% decrease in value and a 6% increase in the number of deals. The Current equities market capitalization of the Nigerian Exchange Ltd is NGN59.22trillion, while the All-Share Index (ASI) closed at 97,722.28Basis points, increase 489.21Basis Points, representing a 0.50% increase, and a YTD increase of 30.70% as against the previous trading day’s close of 97,233.07Basis points.
Cumulatively, 124 NGX equities participated in trading, ending with 31 gainers and 21 losers. Flour Mills Nigeria led the gainers with 10% share price appreciation closing at NGN 78.65 per share, followed by Eunisell Interlinked (+10%), John Holt (+9.97%) and Consolidated Hallmark Holdings (+9.94%). On the losing side, Deap Capital Management & Trust came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of 9.17% at NGN 1.09 per share, followed by Ikeja Hotel (-8.54%), Daar Communications (-6.45%) and Universal Insurance Company (-5.88%). Access Holdings recorded the highest volume of 33.3 million traded shares, followed by Zenith Bank (30.3m), Consolidated Hallmark Holdings (20.1m) and United Capital (19.1m).
