At the close of today’s trading session on the Nigerian Exchange Ltd (NGX), 436.04Million shares were traded in 9,489deals, amounting to a market value of N12.864Billion. Compared with the previous trading day (Last week Friday December 6), today’s data shows a 58% decrease in volume, a 26% decrease in value and a 31% increase in the number of deals. The Current equities market capitalization of the Nigerian Exchange Ltd is NGN59.47trillion, while the All-Share Index (ASI) closed at 98,107.52Basis points, decrease 103.23Basis Points, representing a 0.11% decrease, and a YTD increase of 31.21% as against the previous trading day’s close of 98,210.75Basis points.
Cumulatively, 126 NGX equities participated in trading, ending with 19 gainers and 36 losers. Nigerian Exchange Group led the gainers with 10% share price appreciation closing at NGN 27.50 per share, followed by Golden Guinea Breweries (+10%), Tantalizers (+9.92%) and Africa Prudential (+9.72%). On the losing side, Secure Electronic Technology came out last with an end-of-day price depreciation of 10% at NGN 0.63 per share, followed by Guinea Insurance (-8.93%), Deap Capital Management & Trust (-8.4%) and Daar Communications (-7.02%). FCMB Group recorded the highest volume of 61.7 million traded shares, followed by Access Holdings (51.1m), United Bank for Africa (27.2m) and Guaranty Trust Holding (24.5m).
