Access Bank emerges most traded as market up by 0/77%

Access Bank emerged the most traded stock on the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Thursday transactions as the All-Share Index (NSE ASI) and the Market Capitalization increased by 0.77 per cent, while the year-to-date return stood at 22.56 per cent.

The All-Share Index closed at 32,937.98 against the previous close of 32,686.72 while Market Capitalization closed at ₦11.387 trillion against previous close of ₦11.300 trillion.

Volume traded increased by 5.93 per cent from 499.108 million to 528.693 million, while the total value of stock traded increased by 18.82 per cent from ₦4.074 billion to ₦4.841 billion in 5,603 deals.

The Financial Services sector led the activity chart with 447.153 million shares exchanged for ₦ 3.019 billion.
Consumer Goods came next with 31.965 million shares traded for ₦ 0.593 billion, Conglomerates, Agriculture, Oil and Gas sectors followed in that order on the activity chart.
Access, Fbnh, Uba, Fcmb and Fidelitybk were the most active stocks by volume. Fo, Intbrew, Cadbury, Seplat and Dangflour emerged the highest price gainers on the chart, while Goldbrew, Jaizbank, Jberger, Neimeth and Wapic topped the losers chart.