NSE Index: GTBank, Zenith Bank Billions Trades Couldn't Make Top 5 Gainers

The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) market closed with 5,718.00 deals on Wednesday, February 10th, 2021, lower than the 4,969.00 deals on Monday, February 9th, 2021. The volume reached 366,858,804.00 units at the close of the market on Wednesday higher than the 305,927,696.00 units it closed with on Tuesday.

The value of trades recorded on Wednesday was NGN5,482.552,508.61 with the All-Share Index of 40,696.01 a decrease of -1.96% (-814..15) over Tuesday’s value of 41,510.16

The stock market also ended with equity of N21.29 trillion capitalisation on Wednesday lower than the N21.72 trillion equity recorded on Tuesday.

Top Five Gainers
Niger Insurance led the top gainers' chart after its stock price gained N0.02 to close trading at N0.22 kobo per share after opening the trading with N0.2 per share, according to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) market data seen by AllNews.

Champion drops to second on the table, as its stock price gained NGN0.27 kobo to close the market with N3.02 kobo per share, having started trading today with N2.75 kobo per share.

WAPIC was the third top gainer, as its stock price closed the market with NGN0.04 kobo gain to move from the opening price of N0.54 kobo per share to N0.58 kobo per share.

Academy takes the fourth spot, having closed the market with NGN0.02 kobo gain to end trading at N0.35 kobo per share from the opening share price of N0.33 kobo per share.

Guinness was last on the list after its share price gained NGN0.95 kobo to close trading at N20.6 kobo per share, having opened trade at N19.65 per share.

Top Five Losers
On the top of the losers' list is Fidson, which had begun trading at NGN6 per share, only to drop in price by NGN-0.6 kobo to close at NGN5.4 kobo per share at the end of trading.

CAP was second on the chart after closing at NGN18 per share from its opening trade price of NGN20 per share; this represents a drop of NGN-2.

Regalins’s share price fell by NGN-0.03 kobo as its share price closed trading at NGN0.27 kobo per share, lower than the NGN0.3 kobo per share it opened with.

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Sovrenins also recorded a drop in its share price as it declined by NGN-0.03 kobo to close trading at NGN0.27 kobo per share, below the NGN0.3 kobo per share it opened with.

Sunu assurance completed the top five losers chart after it closed trading with NGN0.24 kobo per share, losing NGN-0.02 kobo from the NGN0.26 kobo per share it opened trading with.

Top Five Trades
AllNews learnt that the top trade in the stock market for Wednesday is Zenith Bank, which traded a volume of over 43.74 Million units worth N1.1 billion.

FBN Holdings was second on the list with a volume of 40.03  million units worth over NGN289.26 million.

GT Bank was third on the list, trading over 35.98 million units worth NGN1.17 billion.

Courteville was fourth on the most traded stock list, closing the market with 35.12 million units traded at over NGN7.02 million.

Transcorp completes the top five list with 23.74 million units traded at NGN23.23 Million.