NGX: Investors Gain ₦32.87bn As Fidelity Bank Leads Trading Chart

A marginal gain of ₦2.62 billion was recorded on the floor of the Nigerian capital market after eight hours of trading on Thursday.

Market capitalisation jumped 0.13 percent settling at ₦25.31 trillion, above the previous day’s ₦25.27 trillion.

This resulted in ₦32.87 billion gain in shareholders’ total investment at the end of trading today.

However, a day before, investors parted with ₦2.62 billion to trade 201.28 million shares in 4,017 deals.

The All-Share Index gained 61 basis points on Thursday, to improve the 46,904.48 ASI to 46,965.48.

The capital market ended with investors trading 256.02 million shares in 4,227 deals, worth ₦3.66 billion, on Thursday.

Meyer topped the gainers’ list with 10 percent to rise from N0.60kobo per share to N0.66kobo.

Mansard share was up by N0.21kobo to move from ₦2.16kobo to ₦2.37kobo per share.

First Bank Holdings share appreciated by N0.80kobo to move from ₦11.60kobo to ₦12.40kobo per share.

Courtville gained 5.66 percent to end trading with N0.56kobo from N0.53kobo per share, while Okomu Oil, gained ₦6.20kobo, to close at ₦149.70kobo from ₦143.50kobo per share.

Topping the losers’ chart was NNFM, which shed ₦10 to drop from ₦9 to ₦1 per share.

Neimeth share dropped N0.15kobo to end trading at ₦1.42kobo from ₦1.57kobo per share.

Berger depreciated from ₦7.50kobo to ₦6.80kobo per share after losing N0.70kobo during trading.

RT Briscoe lost 9.23 percent to end trading with N0.59kobo from N0.65kobo per share.

NB completed the list after losing ₦4.05 from its market price to drop from ₦44.50kobo to ₦40.45kobo per share.

The top trading equities today were Fidelity Bank, which led with 77.34 million shares traded at a value of ₦242.26 million.

UACN followed with 16.95 million shares valued at ₦198.69 million, while Chams sold 15.45 million shares worth ₦3.21 million.

Zenith Bank sold 15.24 million shares worth ₦343.36 million, while AccessCorp traded 15.22 million valued at ₦149.85 million.