Nigerian stocks cringed by 0.71 per cent on Monday in their first pullback in one week as investors pocketed gains that had heaped up during the period., which has dominated trade for the past few days, supported by profit-taking actions in the shares of Nestle and United Capital., an indicator of investor confidence in the market, was negative as 21 laggards were reported compared to 19 gainers.
“We expect the recent rally to be sustained as market participants anticipate a strong Q3-2021 earnings season,” analysts at broker United Capital said of the current week in a note seen by PREMIUM TIMES. The all-share index fell 293.48 points to close at 41,144.67, while market capitalisation dropped to N21.5 trillion.NGXGroup led gainers, appreciating by 9.86 per cent to close at N19.5. Ikeja Hotels grew by 9.52 per cent to end trade at N1.15. Custodian went up by 7.53 per cent to N7.85. Honeywell rose to N3.78, notching up 6.48 per cent in the process. Chams climbed up by 4.55 per cent to N0.23.May & Baker topped the losers’ chart declining by 8.02 per cent to close at N4.36.
FBN Holdings was the most active stock trading with 67.6 million shares worth N832.8 million traded in 718 deals. Access Bank’s shares of 36.6 million units priced at N351.2 million exchanged hands in 298 transactions. Transcorp had 26.5 million shares valued at N26.6 million traded in 240 deals. GTCO traded 25.6 million shares estimated at N755.2 million in 267