The Nigerian bourse closed flat on Wednesday, as the All-Share Index and Market Capitalization improved 0.06% to 24,130.26 points and N12.587 trillion.
Consequently, YTD currently stands at 3.85%. A turnover of 208.20 million shares, valued at N1.761 billion was traded by investors in 3,648 deals. STERLNBK was the most traded stock by volume at 77.1million units, while ZENITH BANK finished the most traded stock by value at N247.8million.
Market sentiment, as measured by market breadth, closed in favour of the bear with 15 tickers closing in red relative to 12 gainers. JBERGER and NB were the top losers of the day with -9.88% and -9.84% declines respectively; while CUTIX and DANGSUGAR recorded the largest gains with +7.69% and +5.17% gains in share value.
Across sectors, two of the five indexes under our coverage gained. Price appreciation in GUARANTY (+0.94%) and ACCESS BANK moved the Banking index up by 0.37%, while the Industrial Goods trailed to gain 0.01%.
Conversely, the Consumer Goods and Insurance indexes were down -1.39% and -0.89% respectively on the back of sell-offs in NB (-9.84%), PZ (-3.33%) and WAPIC (-9.09%), while the Oil and Gas Index
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Top gainers
CUTIX up 7.69% to close at N1.82,DANGSUGAR up 5.17% to close at N12.2AIRTELAFRI up 3.44% to close at N340,GUARANTY up 0.94% to close at N21.5,ACCESS up 0.82% to close at N6.15.
Top losers
JBERGER down 9.88% to close at N15.5, NB down 9.84% to close at N30.7, CAVERTON down 6.15% to close at N1.83, STANBIC down 4.13% to close at N29, PZ down 3.33% to close at N4.35.
Outlook
Nigerian bourse ended flat on Wednesday coupled with thin market liquidity, amid soaring crude oil prices. Nairametrics envisages cautious buying, as many investors remain on the sidelines.