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Industrial Goods Sector Lifts Nigerian Equity Market 2.2% This Week

The Industrial Goods sector spurred the Nigerian equity market to gain 2.2% this week, rallying three out of the five trading sessions.

As investors cherry-picked bellwether stocks, the NSE All-Share Index rose 2.2% week-on-week to settle at 38,382.39 points, YTD loss improved to -2.6% while market capitalisation increased ₦436.3bn this week to settle at ₦20.5trillion.

The Industrial Goods sector made the high leap, appreciating 2.9% this week due to gains in BUACEMENT (+5.1%) and DANGCEM (+2.3%).

It was followed by the Consumer Goods index rose 1.4% w/w due to buying interest in GUINNESS (+18.6%) and INTBREW (+11.8%), while price uptick in MTNN (-+1.9%), LASACO (+6.6%) and SOVRENIN (+4.3%) buoyed performance in the AFR-ICT and Insurance indices by 0.9% w/w apiece.

The Oil & Gas and Banking indices advanced 0.7% and 0.2% w/w respectively following strong demand for STANBIC (+30.0%), STERLNBA (+13.4%) and OANDO (+8.2%).

The average volume of equities traded dipped 34.7% to 306.0 million units while the average value traded increased 10.6% to ₦4.3billion.

The top traded stocks by volume were UBN (317.3m units), GUARANTY (154.9m units) and DANGSUGAR (116.1m units) while GUARANTY (₦4.8bn), MTNN (₦3.1bn), DANGSUGAR (₦2.0bn) led by value.

The top-performing stocks for the week were STANBI (+30.0%), JBERGER (+20.9%) and GUINNESS (+18.6%) led 43 other gainers, while LIVESTOCK (-15.5%), CHAMPION (-13.1%) and MRSOIL (-9.7%) topped 12 other laggards.

 

Felix Oloyede

Felix Oloyede is a Mass Communication graduate with 19 years experience in journalism. He has worked with TheWeek Magazine; Mirror Newspapers; West Africa BusinessNews and BusinessHallmark Newspaper. Oloyede has covered different news beats ranging from crime; arts; politics; commerce and industries to finance and economy. He is an alumnus of Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa. He has also attended different trainings on Media Communication at the Lagos Business School. He is an alumnus of Bloomberg Media Initiative Africa. He has also attended different trainings on Media Communication at the Lagos Business School.

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