…The NASD Securities Exchange reversed gains as the ASI and market capitalisation fell 0.24% to close at 3,543.46 and N2.12billion respectively
TUE DEC 30 2025-theGBJournal| Nigerian stocks sustained its steam on Tuesday, rising for the twelfth consecutive session.
The benchmark All-Share Index (ASI) closed higher by 0.4% to 155,034.72 points. Market Capitalization also closed higher to N98.84 trillion.
The Month-to-Date and Year-to-Date returns settled higher at +8.0% and +50.6%, respectively.
The big gainers were gains in BUAFOODS (+3.9%), TRANSCORP (+7.2%) and BUACEMENT (+2.0%)
The total volume traded advanced by 219.0% to 4.68 billion units, valued at N38.86 billion, and exchanged in 34,852 deals.
CORNERST was the most traded stock by volume and value at 3.67 billion units and N18.53 billion, respectively.
The top performers were the Insurance (+1.6%), Consumer Goods (+0.8%), Industrial Goods (+0.8%) and Oil & Gas (+0.3%) indices, while the Banking (-0.5%) index was the sole loser of the day.
As measured by market breadth, market sentiment was positive (1.8x), as 44 tickers gained relative to 24 losers.
GUINEAINS (+10.0%) and JBERGER (+10.0%) led the gainers, while UNIONDICON (-10.0%) and LIVINGTRUST (-10.0%) led the laggards.
Meanwhile, the NASD Securities Exchange reversed gains as the ASI and market capitalisation fell 0.24% to close at 3,543.46 and N2.12billion respectively.
Market activity was also in the red in today’s session.
The total volume of shares traded decreased by 95.14%, and the total value of trades decreased by 86.73%.
SDNEWREST (+9.08%) led the two gainers, while SDFCWAMCO (-4.51%) led the two losers table in today’s session.
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