Transactions on the floor of the Stock Exchange ended the week on a negative note as trading on Friday February 17, 2023 closed negative as the All Share Index depreciated by 1.31% to settle at 53,804.46 from the previous close of 54,521.49. This brings the year-to-date to 4.24%, the month-to-date to 1.01% and the week-to-date to a negative 0.97% respectively.
Market Capitalisation closed at N29.7trillion. An aggregate of 172,904,351 units of shares were traded in 2981 deals valued at N3.765billion.
Market Breadth
The market breadth closed negative as 13 equities gained while 17 equities declined in their share prices.
Percentage Gainers
Tripple Gee & Co Plc led other gainers with 9.94% growth to close at N1.99 from its previous prices of N1.81.
Coronation Insurance (Wapic), Living Trust Mortgage Bank and UPDC Plc amongst other gainers also grew their share prices by 9.76%, 5.99% and 4.17% respectively.
Percentage Losers
Pharma-Deko Plc led other price decliners as it shed 10% off its share price to close at N1.89 from the previous close of N2.1
RT Briscoe, Airtel Africa and Fidelity Plc, were amongst other losers also shed their share prices by 6.67%, 6.02%, and 4.57% respectively.
Volume Drivers
FBNH Plc traded about 47.422million units of its shares in 98 deals, valued at N561.225million.
Zenith Bank Plc traded about 16.892million units of its shares in 253 deals, valued at N427.004million.
Access Bank Plc traded about 13.594million units of its shares in 148 deals, valued at N125.685million
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