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The Nigerian Stock Exchange market closed with 2,942 deals on Friday, October 23, 2020, lower than the 3,375 deals it closed with on Thursday, October 24, 2020. The volume reached 282,97 million units at the close of the market on Friday, lower than the 311,33 million units it closed with on Friday.
The value of trades recorded on Friday was NGN4,426 billion, lower than the NGN4,691 billion of Thursday. Meanwhile, on Friday, the All-Share Index reached 28,697.06 index points, higher than the 28,563.87 All-Share Index of Thursday.
The stock market also ended with a NGN14,999 trillion equity capitalisation on Friday, lower than the NGN14,929 trillion recorded on Thursday.
Nascon led the top gainers' chart after its stock price gained NGN1.3 kobo to close trading at NGN14.3 kobo per share after opening today's trading with NGN13 per share, according to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) market data seen by AllNews.
Dangote Cement was second on the table, as its stock price gained NGN1 to close the market with NGN151 per share, having started trading today with NGN150 per share.
GTBank was the third top gainer as its stock price closed the market with a NGN0.45 kobo gain to move from the opening price of NGN30 per share to NGN30.45 kobo per share. Zenith Bank follows, closing the market with a gain of NGN0.35 kobo to end trading with NGN21 per share from the opening share price of NGN20.65 kobo per share.
PZ was last on the top five gainers' table after its share price stabilised at NGN0.3 kobo per share to close trading at NGN4.4 kobo per share, having opened trading at NGN4.1 kobo.
On the top of the losers' list is NNFM, which had begun trading earlier today at NGN4.65 kobo per share, only to drop in price by NGN-0.46 to close at NGN4.19 kobo per share at the end of trading today.
Vitaform was second on the chart after closing at NGN6 per share from its opening trade price of NGN6.2 kobo per share; this represents a drop of NGN-0.2. NPF Microfinance Bank also recorded a drop in its share price as it declined by -4.29% to close trading at NGN1.34 kobo per share, below the NGN1.4 kobo per share it opened with.
Honey Flour also recorded a drop in its share price as it declined by -4.21% to close trading at NGN0.91 kobo per share, below the NGN0.95 kobo per share it opened with. Union DAC completed the top five losers chart after it closed trading with NGN0.26 kobo per share, declining by -3.70% from the NGN0.27 kobo per share it opened trading with.
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AllNews learnt that the top trades in the stock market for today were Access Bank, which traded a volume of over 80.53 million units worth NGN622.88 million. GTBank was the second most traded stock today with over 76.49 million units worth over NGN2.29 billion. UBA was next on the list, trading 24.93 million units worth NGN174.40 million.
First Bank was the fourth on the most traded stock list, closing the market with over 24.38 million units traded at a cost of over NGN149.20 million, while Zenith Bank completed the top five list with over 19.55 million units traded today, worth NGN409.30 million.
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