Nigerian Stock Market Records ₦28.3bn Loss as Investors Book Profits
The Nigerian stock market records ₦28.3 billion loss as investors’ book profit, shedding their positions to raise cash for seventh trading session.
Sell pressure in ZENITH (-0.8%), GUARANTY (-0.5%), and INTBREW (-2.6%) dragged the benchmark index lower by 13 basis points (bps) to 41,510.16 points, extending the previous day’s loss.
As a result, year to date return further declined to 3.1% while market capitalisation settled at ₦21.7 trillion.
Market data shows that activity level was mixed as volume traded fell 10.1% to 305.9 million units while value traded rose 49.7% to ₦4.0 billion.
The most traded stocks by volume were FBNH (47.8 million units), GUINNESS (37.2 million units) and RTBRISCOE (26.8 million units).
GUINNESS (₦732.3 million), ZENITH (₦651.0 million) and MTNN (₦521.2 million) led by value.
Afrinvest said performance across sectors under its coverage was largely bearish as 5 of 6 indices closed in the red, save the AFR-ICT index which closed flat.
The Insurance and Banking indices lost 1.7% and 0.5% respectively due to sell pressures in NEM (-9.2%), MANSARD (-2.3%), ZENITH (-0.8%) and GUARANTY (-0.5%).
Similarly, sell-offs in INTBREW (-2.6%), DANGSUGAR (-1.8%), ARDOVA (-5.8%) and JAPAULGO (-8.9%) dragged the Consumer Goods and Oil & Gas indices lower by 0.3% apiece.
Just as the Industrial Goods index declined 4bps due to profit-taking in WAPCO (-0.6%).
Investor sentiment as measured by market breadth weakened to 1.0x from the 1.3x recorded previously as 23 stocks gained against 22 losers.
MORISON (+10.0%), LINKASSURE (+10.0%) and RTBRISCOE (+10.0%) were the top gainers.
Meanwhile NNFM (-9.9%), NEM (-9.2%) and NIGERINS (-9.1%) were the top losers.
“In the next trading session, we expect to see investors take position in bellwether stocks.
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“However, trades might be influenced by the direction of yields in the fixed income market”, Afrinvest stated.
Nigerian Stock Market Records ₦28.3bn Loss as Investors Book Profits
