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Airtel and MTN Nigeria are sending bad signals from NSE to Glo, 9mobile

Fakoyejo Olalekan by Fakoyejo Olalekan
July 12, 2019
in Company News, General News, Markets, Spotlight, Stock Market
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In May 2019, MTN Nigeria listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). The move was perceived by many as both an invitation and a challenge to other telecoms companies to do the same. Since then, Airtel Africa has equally listed, even as it remains Globacom and 9mobile.

If Globacom and 9mobile were considering taking up the challenge before, that probably has changed, no thanks to the bad signals being received from the stock market lately.

Network providers are recording poor performance on the NSE. Before Airtel Africa joined MTN Nigeria on the NSE, the latter was struggling to maintain its share price. That has continued, following Airtel Africa’s listing.

The Bharti subsidiary followed in the footsteps of MTN Nigeria after its successful first day of trading which saw a 10% increase in its share price. Airtel Africa’s stock price has since dropped consecutively for two days.

[READ ALSO: This is why Airtel withdrew from 9mobile bid process]

Airtel’s performance on LSE: The company’s performance on the London Stock Exchange has also generally been bearish. The stock traded flat on Thursday at 72 pence. Airtel Africa’s LSE share price had declined by 15% on its first day of trading London on June 28, making it one of the worst debuts on the European exchanges this year.

Airtel’s performance on NSE: On July 10th, Airtel was among the losers on NSE, falling by 10% to trade at N359.40 Kobo against IPO price of N363. This is after initially gaining 10% on its first day of trading and hitting N399.30 Kobo per share.

MTN Nigeria shares, Airtel Afrrica shares, Glo subscribers, 9mobile subscribers, Internet speed
MTN Nigeria Airtel Globacom and 9mobile

The company also plunged by 9.99% at the stock market on Thursday, occupying the losers’ chart with MTN Nigeria which as well recorded a drop in share price.

MTN Nigeria’s performance on NSE: MTN Nigeria also dropped by 2.26% on the NSE floor, closing the market at N129.5 Kobo per share after opening with N133. The company had climbed from N129.05 to N133 on Wednesday but fell again on Thursday. It had opened the market this week at N129.45.

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It has been a rather disappointing outing for telecommunications company this week, and this is not encouraging to lure other network providers like Globacom and 9mobile which have been tipped to follow in Airtel and MTN’s path. Investors’ confidence seems not to be high for telecoms’ stocks and they are making this known with the way they invest in the first and second largest telcos in Nigeria.

Generally, investors in the Nigerian market have been cautious of their activities due to the low growth in Nigeria. Also, the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint a cabinet months after his re-election is a contributing factor.

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Tags: Airtel Africa NSE listingAirtel Africa on LSEAirtel Africa sharesMTN Nigeria NSE listingMTN Nigeria Shares

Comments 4

  1. Bigz says:
    July 12, 2019 at 9:08 am

    hello Lekan, i want to ask, how has the failure of President to appoint a cabinet months after his re-election a contributing factor to the decline of shares on the NSE?

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  2. Arinze C Onwuteaka says:
    July 12, 2019 at 12:36 pm

    Am not sure this is an objective analysis as the whole exchange is experiencing same bearish trend so to isolate the 2 telecos would not be a good way to go.

    Perhaps if the general trend was a bullish one and then the 2 telcos are going south then one can say they are not encouraging the others to come onboard.

    One could infer also that the timing was not right given the current market sentiments, there again, there are processes so if by the time all these are concluded and the market, due to either economic or peculiar events turn south, would that also be a basis to say they have sent wrong signals.

    i think it would be nice to look at their fundamentals and then if the market under normal circumstance is good would their prices trend upwards or south….if otherwise then…

    Just my thoughts
    Arinze

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    • Brian says:
      July 12, 2019 at 4:47 pm

      Excellent input Arinze

      Reply
  3. Ipadeola Jonathan Okesooto says:
    July 17, 2019 at 2:34 pm

    We need to generally appraise the ability to raise cheap capital from NSE

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